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BRAIN re-issues notice for awardees to apply for diversity supplements

This Notice of Special Interest encourages eligible BRAIN Initiative awardees to apply for supplemental funds that will promote diversity in health-related research.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN issues suite of funding opportunities to advance brain cell atlases through centers, collaboratories and coordinating units

These funding opportunities support the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN), which aims to build reference brain cell atlases for wide dissemination throughout the research community.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN re-issues neuroethics funding opportunity

The funding opportunity will support efforts addressing core ethical issues associated with research focused on the human brain and resulting from emerging technologies and advancements supported by the BRAIN Initiative.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN issues notices for funding opportunities to advance brain cell atlases through centers, collaboratories and coordinating units

These Notices support the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network, which aims to build reference brain cell atlas for wide dissemination throughout the community.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

NIH issues Notices for funding opportunities on artificial intelligence and big data

BRAIN Investigators may be interested in the Bridge2AI program and Notices through the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy that will support artificial intelligence and big data efforts.

As the quantity and heterogeneity of datasets exponentially increase in neuroscience and related fields, the BRAIN community may be interested in the following NIH funding opportunities on artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

NIH issues funding opportunity to support Armamentarium-related resource production and distribution at historically under-resourced institutions

This notice of funding opportunity supports the establishment of facilities at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-eligible institutions for scaled production and distribution of neurotechnology resources.

RFA-MH-21-180 Reagent Resources for Brain Cell Type-Specific Access and Manipulation to Broaden Distribution of Enabling Technologies for Neuroscience (U24; Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Funding for Translating BRAIN Initiative Technologies to the Marketplace

A recent Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) will support the translation of BRAIN technologies from academic and non-small business research to the marketplace.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

February Publication Roundup

Evaluating the validity of flexible models… Astrocytes control inhibitory neural synapses… The future of open source optogenetic data in non-human primates… A brain region that can predict the future…

An alternative strategy for identifying mathematical models with correct interpretations

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Enhancing and maintaining a culture of inclusive excellence: The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program

A message to the community from the Directors of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices involved in the NIH BRAIN Initiative and NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021: Human Neuroscience, Clinical Studies, and Neuroimaging

This week, a series of daily blog posts highlight 28 BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2021. This last post features six funding opportunities for researchers to develop, test, and utilize next-gen neural devices and noninvasive neuroimaging methods to advance our knowledge about the brain.

 

Human Neuroscience and Clinical Studies

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding