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Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Training, neuroethics, and small business

This week, a series of blog posts will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post focuses on awards for training, equity, and inclusion; neuroethics; and small business.

Welcome to our annual NOFO week! Each day, we’ll summarize BRAIN funding opportunities for fiscal year 2022. While this series will reflect active BRAIN funding opportunities, keep an eye on this blog space as additional funding becomes available.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN issues notices for planned funding opportunities to map connectivity across scales through BRAIN CONNECTS

These notices support the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales Network (BRAIN CONNECTS), which aims to coordinate the development of research capacity and technical capabilities to generate wiring diagrams that span entire brain regions across multiple scales. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Upcoming UNITE listening sessions to discuss racial and ethnic equity among NIH stakeholders

A series of 14 virtual listening sessions from December 1, 2021 through February 1, 2022 organized by the National Institute of Health’s UNITE Initiative to listen and learn from key stakeholders at all levels of the biomedical research community.

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN issues notice of supplements to embed ethicists into BRAIN Initiative research

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) announces the availability of administrative supplements to integrate neuroethics perspectives and approaches into current BRAIN-funded projects.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

From the BRAIN Director: Reflecting on Another Year of Exciting BRAIN Research

The National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative continues to grow as reflected by more than 200 new research projects funded in fiscal year 2021, totaling over $540 million.

  • Neuroscience News

Upcoming BRAIN Events at the 2021 Society for Neuroscience Conference

Please join us online for exciting BRAIN-relevant events at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting occurring virtually November 8-11, 2021.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will be hosting a virtual conference this year on November 8-11, 2021, celebrating its 50th annual meeting. As always, there are several exciting BRAIN Initiative happenings slated to occur at the conference.

  • Neuroscience News

NIH SPARC Program to hold two Q&A webinars on a new funding opportunity to support an open-source ecosystem of neurostimulation hardware and software

Curious about the new Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) funding opportunity? Join us later today or on November 12, 2021 to learn more.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN Workshop Convenes the Next Generation of Leaders on Making Career Transitions

The workshop on October 26 convened BRAIN-supported trainees at various career stages, and presented perspectives from junior faculty, senior faculty, and NIH program officials.

  • Neuroscience News

Six BRAIN Initiative Scientists Receive NIH High-Risk High-Reward Awards

The BRAIN-funded scientists Drs. Polina Anikeeva, Rui Costa, Josh Huang, Mikhail Shapiro, Chethan Pandarinath and Todd Roberts were among the recipients of these prestigious awards.

  • Neuroscience News

Upcoming webinar explores BICCN research results

Tune in this Wednesday, October 27 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT to view a webinar hosted by the Allen Institute about recent research findings from the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN).  

  • Neuroscience News