NIH has released three new exciting Requests for Applications (RFAs) for the BRAIN Initiative, and we are encouraging researchers from across the physical and life sciences, as well as engineering and statistical disciplines, to submit applications to these and future open BRAIN Initiative funding opportunities.
NIH recently released three new notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2016 to support work in the BRAIN Initiative. The three NOFOs expand the exciting research already underway by supporting work that builds upon advances in neuroscience – via novel modeling, education, and technology propagation.
The first announcement, RFA EB-15-006, provides support for new theories, computational models, and statistical methods to derive understanding of brain function from complex neuroscience data. A variety of approaches are applicable; from the creation of new theories, ideas, and conceptual frameworks to organize or unify data to infer general principles on brain function, to new mathematical or statistical methods to support or refute a stated hypothesis on brain function. NIH expects that approaches developed under this NOFO will be made widely available to the neuroscience research community. The receipt date for this RFA is October 21, 2015.
The second announcement, RFA MH-16-700, is the re-issue of MH-15-215 for the development of short courses in computational neuroscience. Using the NIH Research Education Program (R25) mechanism, this NOFO supports creative educational activities with a focus on courses for skills development in computational neuroscience, including theoretical neuroscience, computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems, and/or statistical perspectives and techniques. The receipt date for this RFA is November 6, 2015.
The third announcement, RFA MH-16-725, encourages the transfer of new technologies and new data analysis techniques into research laboratories. To support the broad dissemination of new technologies developed through the BRAIN Initiative, the NOFO provides funds to enable the incorporation of technologies into research programs beyond where they originated. Applications that include interactions between tool developers and new users in which the tools will facilitate BRAIN-related projects, result in a publication or other concrete deliverable, and can be adapted for additional types of experiments are appropriate. The receipt date for this RFA is January 6, 2016.
Please check our Funding Opportunities page for more details on these and other, open RFAs for the BRAIN Initiative.