This funding opportunity supports research to answer high-impact questions in human neuroscience that capitalizes on unique intracranial surgical procedures.
The NIH BRAIN Initiative funds research on investigative human neuroscience through the Research Opportunities in Humans program. The Investigative Human Neuroscience Program supports research projects focused on investigative neuroscience with intracranial access to recording and manipulating the brain directly.
RFA-DC-24-001 BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain (R61 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required).
This funding opportunity seeks applications to assemble diverse, integrated, multi-disciplinary teams that cross boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration. Proposals should contain exploratory research and planning activities to establish feasible, proof-of-principle, and early-stage development. Projects should maximize opportunities to conduct innovative in vivo neuroscience research made available by direct access to the brain from intracranial surgical procedures. Projects should employ approaches guided by specified theoretical constructs and by quantitative, mechanistic models where appropriate. For more information, please view the full funding opportunity.
The next application due date is September 20, 2024.
As part of the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s efforts to promote more impactful science through the inclusion of diverse perspectives, this funding opportunity will require a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives as part of the application. Please visit the BRAIN Initiative’s funding opportunities webpage for more details on these and any additional opportunities that may arise.