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Pre-Award and Research Development |
September 12, 2025 |
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A Brand-New Postdoc T32 Training Grant! Congratulations, Drs. Wolpert, Card, and Litwin-Kumar!
The Zuckerman Institute is continuing to commit to postdoctoral training, now with a new NINDS-funded training program grant in Integrated Computational and Experimental Sensorimotor Control. This program is led by Drs. Wolpert, Card, and Litwin-Kumar. |
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Awards Galore!
Many of our investigators and trainees received NIH and private foundation awards. See below for details. |
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Weekly Office Hours
Every Thursday, 2:00-3:00 pm:
Meet the team and ask any questions during office hours.
Click here to join the Zoom meeting. |
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Schedule time to meet with the team |
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Congratulations to our recent award recipients!July 25 - September 12, 2025 |
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Postdoc Awards |
Sachira Denagamage: NIH/NINDS F32 NS144013 "Suppression of distributed sensory representations by self-motion cues in Drosophila" (Card and Behnia Labs)
Daniel Kato: NIH/NEI F32 EY037556 "Characterizing representational geometry and learning across primate visual streams" (Issa Lab)
Ji Xia: NIH/NINDS K99 NS144599 "Computational Approaches for Understanding Multi-Area Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Memory-Guided Movements" (Miller Lab)
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Additional Awards |
Matthew Whiteway: NIH/NINDS Research Software Engineer Award R50 NS145433 "Enhancing the International Brain Laboratory's Video Processing Pipeline with Advanced Pose Estimation and Action Segmentation Tools" (Theory Center / Paninski Lab)
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Early Career Investigator Awards |
Andres Bendesky: NIH/NICHD R01 HD115879 "The promotion of parental behavior by the neurosteroid allopregnanediol"
Vikram Gadagkar: HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Award "Neural Mechanisms of Performance Evaluation in Singing Birds"
Elias Issa: NIH/NIMH R03 MH140024 "Behavioral paradigms for cognitive neuroscience in the common marmoset"
Bianca Jones Marlin: Pew Biomedical Scholars Program "Sensing Trauma: Smell and the mechanisms of intergenerational memory" & Columbia University Ideas and Imagination Reid Hall Fellowship "Thoughts that leave a trace: Inheritance of the imagined"
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Mid-Career Investigator Awards |
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor: Columbia University Incite Institute Hard Questions Grant "How does the brain support community living?"
Minoree Kohwi: NIH/NICHD R01 HD119838 "In vivo regulation of progenitor genome organization and cellular diversity"
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Established Investigator Awards |
Larry Abbott & Rudy Behnia: NIH/NINDS Renewal T32 NS064929 "Advanced Graduate Training Program in Theoretical Neuroscience"
Niko Kriegeskorte: NIH/BRAIN Initiative TMM R01 DA060742 "Representational geometry: evaluating brain-computational models with neural activity data" (with Xuexin Wei at UT Austin)
Stavros Lomvardas: NIH/NIDCD R01 DC022975 "Solid phase transition as a facilitator of olfactory receptor choice"
Franck Polleux: NOMIS Foundation Human Brain Evolution Initiative Grant (with Drs. Vanderhaeghen and Noonan)
Daniel Wolpert, Gwyneth Card, & Ashok Litwin-Kumar: NIH/NINDS T32 NS141752 "Postdoctoral T32 in Integrated Computational and Experimental Sensorimotor Control" |
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Upcoming funding opportunities |
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Team Grants |
Want to write a large, multi-investigator grant? Come talk to us about planning and executing team grant applications. Schedule a meeting with our team here!
New/Highlighted Team Grant Opportunities
- NSF/NIH Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Program. Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain Function. NSF deadline: November 12.
- Forecasted: BRAIN Initiative RM1: Integrative Team-Research BRAIN Circuits Program - iTeamBCP. To understand how the nervous system, from its individual components to its unified whole, gives rise to mental experience and behavior. Applications must connect these 3 levels of analysis: (1) rich large-scale information about circuit components (e.g., cell types, connectivity), (2) in vivo CNS recordings at cellular and sub-second and temporal resolution, (3) along with analyses of a tractable behavior of an organism or a well-defined neural system. Estimated Application Due Date: June 16, 2026
- Forecasted: NINDS RM1: Collaborative Opportunities for Multiple-disciplinary, Bold, and Innovative Neuroscience (COMBINE). To pursue a single focused goal to overcome persistent barriers, challenge orthodoxies, achieve paradigm-shifts, or develop new foundational principles in neuroscience. Estimated Application Due Date: June 23, 2026
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Established Investigators (view full list on our website) |
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New/Highlighted Funding Opportunities
- BRAIN Initiative R01: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain. For 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. October 07, 2025
- Tiny Blue Dot Foundation Science of Peception Box. Grant funds will support research to develop relevant techniques and interventions to expand the walls of people’s Perception Box, to measure the effectiveness of such techniques and interventions for clinical or non-clinical populations, and to track their basis in the brain using appropriate tools. LOI: October 07, 2025
- BRAIN Initiative R01: New Technologies and Novel Approaches for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System. Applications for proof-of-concept testing and development of new technologies and novel approaches for recording and modulation of neural cells and circuits, to address major challenges and enable transformative understanding of dynamic signaling in the central nervous system. January 20, 2026
- Forecasted: BRAIN Initiative R01: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain. For the development of computational tools (theories, models, methods) for understanding dynamic brain circuits, which will be made broadly accessible to the greater research community. Estimated Application Due Date: February 5, 2026
- BRAIN Initiative R21: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System. For unique and innovative recording and/or modulation technologies that are in the earliest stage of development, including new and untested ideas that are in the initial stages of conceptualization. June 15, 2026
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
- NIH Parent R01: New: October 5, June 5, February 5; Renewal/Resubmission: March 5, July 5, November 5
- NIH Parent R21: New: October 16, February 16, June 16; Renewal/Resubmission: March 16, July 16, November 16
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Early Career Investigators (view full list and timeline on our website) |
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship: Must be tenure-track, though untenured. Candidate’s faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation. September 15
- Moore Inventor Fellowship: No more than 10 years since terminal degree received. Internal application for nomination. Call for submissions expected: Early-Mid September. Internal application expected deadline: Early-Mid October
- Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01): Supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. January 27, May 27, September 28
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Post-Docs (view full list and timeline on our website) |
- NIH F32 NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
- NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence (1-2 years of postdoc + 3 years of faculty funding)
NIH Parent K99/R00: Transition to faculty. International applicants eligible. 3rd - 4th year postdocs. New: October 13, February 12, June 12. Resubmission: November 12, March 12, July 12
- NIH K01 Career Development Award
NIH Parent K01: 2nd - 5+ year postdocs. New: June 12, October 12, February 12. Resubmission: November 12, March 12, July 12,
- NYAS Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience: Must have no more than 2 years of postdoc experience (can request eligibily extension). October 17
- Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Award: Must apply within 5 years of receiving Ph.D. or M.D.; must have begun (or will begin) working in your proposed postdoc lab between August 1 of the previous year and July 31 of the upcoming year; Post-doc must be in different lab than Ph.D. October 31
*Check with us regarding eligibility window extensions for NIH grants |
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Graduate Students (view full list and timeline on our website) |
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- NIH F31: For U.S. citizens/permanent residents. August 8, December 8, April 8
- NIH F99/K00 Pre-doc to post-doc transition award
- Forecasted: NIH/NIA Transition to Aging Research for Predoctoral Students F99/K00. must be a U.S. citizen/permanent resident OR non-U.S. citizen with a valid U.S. visa; for grad students with 1.5-2 years left of PhD (typically 3rd or 4th year students). Estimated Application Due Date: February 17, 2026
- Forecasted: NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative ACTION Potential F99/K00: To support a defined pathway across career stages for skilled neuroscience graduate students performing neuroscience research within the missions of the NIH Blueprint and/or BRAIN Initiative. For grad students with 1.5-2 years left of PhD (typically 3rd or 4th year students). Estimated Application Due Date: March 20, 2026
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP): Pre-grad, first or second year Ph.D.; U.S. citizen/permanent resident; Cannot have a master’s degree. Late October
- Hertz Foundation Fellowship: Pre-grad or first year; U.S. citizen/permanent resident. Expected deadline: October 31
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: First or second year Ph.D.; Less than 31 years old; Must be an immigrant or child of immigrants; U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA, asylee, refugee. October 30
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The Future in Mind
The Zuckerman Institute Friday Funding monthly email recaps the latest award wins of our researchers and outlines important upcoming grant deadlines.
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