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Funding opportunity for post-doctoral fellows

This F32 notice of funding opportunity supports research training of promising postdocs, early in their postdoctoral training period. The next application due date is April 11, 2022.

RFA-MH-20-620BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) (Reissue of RFA-MH-18-510; F32) 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN issues funding opportunities to launch new transformative project BRAIN CONNECTS

Three new notices of funding opportunities with initial receipt dates in July 2022 launch the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS) Network, marking the start of a new transformative project enabling unprecedented brain-wide mapping capability of neural circuits in mice, humans, and non-human primates. 

Transforming 21st century neuroscience with ground truth connectivity maps  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Blueprint MedTech and BRAIN issue a notice and upcoming Q&A webinar on funding opportunity for translational neurotechnology

The notice encourages BRAIN applicants to apply to the NIH Blueprint MedTech program’s funding opportunities aimed at accelerating the translation of early stage neurotechnologies to first-in-human studies.  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Courses for Skills Development

Today’s post highlights a new notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) that supports short courses for skills development that will significantly advance the educational goals of the BRAIN Initiative.

RFA-EY-21-003 BRAIN Initiative-Related Research Education: Short Courses (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

NIH-funded study could help improve deep brain stimulation therapy for OCD

Recent BRAIN Initiative-funded study finds promise in the use of adaptive deep brain stimulation for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2022: Technology dissemination and tools for studying cells and circuits

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post features NOFOs for establishing reagent production facilities and tool development and dissemination.

The NOFOs below aim to advance our ability to study specific cell types and circuits by developing, validating, and disseminating cutting-edge technologies to the broader neuroscience community. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Human neuroscience and clinical studies

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. This post features funding opportunities to develop, test, and utilize next-gen neural devices to advance our knowledge about the brain.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Neural recording, modulation, and stimulation

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post summarizes NOFOs for neural recording, modulation, and stimulation tool development in animals and humans.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

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