Over the next several years, the FAS Research Development group will track and disseminate all funding opportunities related to the BRAIN Initiative. These funding opportunities will be sent to a targeted list of faculty. That list includes faculty affiliates of the Center for Brain Science (CBS) and the Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative. This project is being carried out in collaboration with the Center for Brain Science. All opportunities will be archived and recipients may unsubscribe at any time. For additional Research Development support (finding funding, proposal development resources, etc.), please visit the Research Development website.
Funding Opportunities
The following four NIH BRAIN Initiative funding opportunities have been extended, with deadlines now scheduled in 2017 in addition to November 2016:


Sponsor Deadlines: November 23, 2016 and October 13, 2017
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 4 years.
 
The focus of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to better understand how existing non-invasive neuromodulation devices affect brain circuity. This information should shed light on dose/response relationships that could be used for neuroscience applications and clinical interventions.    
 
Sponsor Deadlines: November 23, 2016 and October 13, 2017
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 4 years.
 
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits grant applications in two related but distinct areas.  The first area is in the development and testing of novel tools and methods of neuromodulation that go beyond the existing variations on magnetic or electrical stimulation, and that represent more than an incremental advance over existing approaches.  The second distinct area that this FOA seeks to encourage is the optimization of existing electrical and magnetic stimulation methods.  

Sponsor Deadlines: November 23, 2016 and October 13, 2017
Award Information: Application budgets are limited to $700,000 in direct costs (including consortium F&A) in any project year. The maximum project period is 4 years.
 
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) aims to support transformative discoveries that will lead to breakthroughs in understanding human brain function. Guided by the long-term scientific plan, "BRAIN 2025: A Scientific Vision," this FOA specifically seeks to support efforts that will revolutionize our understanding of the biological activity underlying, and bioinformatic content of, data collected using contemporary non-invasive functional brain imaging techniques. The hope is that these transformative discoveries will lead to breakthroughs in understanding the dynamic activity of the human brain.     

Sponsor Deadlines: November 2, 2016 and October 13, 2017
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 3 years. 
 
The purpose of this BRAIN Initiative FOA is to encourage applications that will develop and validate novel tools to facilitate the detailed analysis of complex circuits and provide insights into cellular interactions that underlie brain function. The new tools and technologies should inform and/or exploit cell-type and/or circuit-level specificity. Plans for validating the utility of the tool/technology will be an essential feature of a successful application. The development of new genetic and non-genetic tools for delivering genes, proteins and chemicals to cells of interest or approaches that are expected to target specific cell types and/or circuits in the nervous system with greater precision and sensitivity than currently established methods are encouraged. Tools that can be used in a number of species/model organisms rather than those restricted to a single species are highly desired. Applications that provide approaches that break through existing technical barriers to substantially improve current capabilities are highly encouraged.        

Additional Information
Questions about this newsletter or proposal submission may be directed to:

Jennifer Corby
Research Development Officer
jcorby@fas.harvard.edu | 617-495-1590
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