Common Funding Opportunities for ZI Investigators
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Highlighted Funding Opportunities
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain R01
- Annual deadlines
- Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 3
- Other Information
- Purpose: Research 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.
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Projects- TargetedBCP (R01)
- Annual deadlines
- Early October + Late June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 06
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Information
- Purpose: Research projects that seek to understand how circuit activity gives rise to mental experience and behavior using innovative, methodologically-integrated approaches. Applications are expected to address circuit function in the context of specific behaviors or neural systems, such as sensation, perception, attention, reasoning, intention, decision-making, emotion, navigation, communication, or homeostasis. Projects should link theory, data analysis, and/or computational approaches to experimental design and should produce predictive models (conceptual or quantitative).
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects – TargetedBCPP (R34)
- Annual deadlines
- Early October + Late June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 06
- Total Costs
- $450,000 + indirect
- Years of Support
- 2
- Other Information
- Purpose: Adventurous, exploratory research projects that use innovative, methodologically-integrated approaches to understand how circuit activity gives rise to mental experience and behavior. Establish feasibility, validity, or other technically qualifying results that, if successful, would support, enable, and/or lay the groundwork for a potential, subsequent Targeted BRAIN Circuits Projects - TargetedBCP R01, as described in the companion FOA (RFA-NS-22-026).
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01)
- Annual deadlines
- Mid-October + Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 06
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Information
- Purpose: To develop informatics tools for analyzing, visualizing, and integrating data related to the BRAIN Initiative or to enhance our understanding of the brain.
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - TeamBCP (U19)
- Annual deadlines
- Mid-September
- Key Deadline Month
- 09
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Information
- Purpose: Integrated, interdisciplinary research teams that focus on examining dynamic circuit functions related to behavior, using advanced and innovative technologies. Applications should focus on overarching principles of circuit function in the context of specific neural systems underlying sensation, perception, emotion, motivation, cognition, decision-making, motor control, communication, or homeostasis.
- Name and Link
- NINDS Interdisciplinary Team Science Grant (RM1)
- Annual deadlines
- Early October
- Key Deadline Month
- 10
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Information
- Purpose: Support integrated efforts of three or more (up to six) PDs/PIs to pursue bold, impactful, and challenging research in any area within the scope of the NINDS mission.
- Name and Link
- BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - eTeamBCP (U01)
- Annual deadlines
- Mid-June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- Not limited
- Years of Support
- 3
- Other Information
- Purpose: Support teams of three or more (up to six) PDs/PIs that seek to cross boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration to elucidate the contributions of dynamic circuit activity to a specific behavioral or neural system.
Common Funding Opportunities
- Name and Link
- NIH Research Grant Program (R01)
- Key Dates
- New Applications: October 5 + February 5 + June 5
- Resubmission/Renewal/Revision: November 5 + March 5 + July 5
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Total Costs
- Depends on specific FOA
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Eligibility
- Typically, R01s are only granted to independent PIs who run their own laboratory
- Name and Link
- NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)
- Key Dates
- New Applications: October 16 + February 16 + June 16
- Resubmission/Renewal/Revision: November 16 + March 16 + July 16
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Total Costs
- $275,000 + indirect
- Years of Support
- 2
- Other Eligibility
- Scope:
- Exploratory, novel studies that break new ground or extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.
- High risk high reward studies that may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or result in novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models or applications that will impact biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.
- Projects should be distinct from those supported through the traditional R01 mechanism.
Additional Funding Opportunities
- Name and Link
- NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) FOUNDATIONS
- Key Dates
- Application: Mid February
- Key Deadline Month
- 02
- Total Costs
- $1,000,000
- Years of Support
- 2-4
- Other Eligibility
- High-risk, high-payoff projects that advance the foundations of one or more NCS focus areas
- Name and Link
- NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) FRONTIERS
- Key Dates
- Letter of Intent - Required for FRONTIERS only: Mid December
- Application: Mid February
- Key Deadline Month
- 12
- Total Costs
- $1,000,000 per integrative research thread
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Eligibility
- Offered only every other year (2023 is next app deadline)
- Ambitious, highly integrative, interdisciplinary projects
- Name and Link
- Understanding and Modifying Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Neural Activity (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Key Dates
- New Applications: Mid October + Mid February + Mid June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Total Costs
- $275,000 direct costs
- Years of Support
- 2
- Other Eligibility
- Must address at least one topic area:
- Temporal dynamics of neural patterns that impact cognition, affect, or social behavior
- Understanding how molecular aberrations lead to systems-level discoordination
- Animal-to-human translation
- Computational modeling
- Name and Link
- Basic Neurodevelopmental Biology of Circuits and Behavior (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Key Dates
- New Applications: Mid October + Mid February + Mid June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Total Costs
- $275,000 direct costs
- Years of Support
- 2
- Other Eligibility
- Research projects focused on the dynamic and mechanistic links between the maturation of brain circuits and behaviors across development in rodents and non-human primates
- Name and Link
- Basic Neurodevelopmental Biology of Circuits and Behavior (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Key Dates
- New Applications: Early October + Early February + Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Total Costs
- $2,500,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Other Eligibility
- Research projects focused on the dynamic and mechanistic links between the maturation of brain circuits and behaviors across development in rodents and non-human primates
- Name and Link
- NIH High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Key Dates
- Application: Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- Up to $2,000,000
- Years of Support
- 1
- Other Eligibility
- For research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, and clinical biomedical or biobehavioral research
- Instrument base cost must be greater than $600,000
- Name and Link
- NIH NIMH Instrumentation Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Key Dates
- Application: Early February + Early October
- Key Deadline Month
- 10 + 02
- Total Costs
- $300,000 - $600,000
- Years of Support
- 1
- Other Eligibility
- To purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available.
- For individual laboratories or core facilities that conduct mental health-related research
- Name and Link
- NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Key Dates
- Application: Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- $50,000 - $600,000
- Years of Support
- 1
- Other Eligibility
- To purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system that can only be justified on a shared-use basis.
- Name and Link
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
- Key Dates
- Application: Early - Mid January
- Key Deadline Month
- 01
- Total Costs
- Track 1: $500,000 - $999,999
- Track 2: $1,000,000 - $4,000,000
- Years of Support
- 3 (equipment acquisition) - 5 (equipment development)
- Other Eligibility
- Only 3 submissions allowed per institution (two Track 1/lower cost and one Track 2/higher cost submissions)
- May be either for acquisition or development of a research instrument.
- NSF strongly values MRI proposals that seek to develop next-generation research instruments that open new frontiers of research.
Useful Links
- BRAIN Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcements
- Open Limited Submission Opportunities
- Funding Opportunities Slack Channel
- Columbia PIVOT custom search engine for funding opportunities
- Duke University's funding opportunities database