I have a question about Training and Career Development and/or Diversity programs or fellowships.
I want to talk to someone about a specific Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). I know the NOFO number or program name (BRAIN, HEAL, Blueprint, AD/ADRD, CounterACT, Common Fund)
I am developing a potential therapeutic (small molecule, biologic or device) orI am a small business.
I want to conduct a clinical trial that takes advantage of NINDS clinical networks.
I want to discuss how neuroethics or bioethics fits into my research area.
I want to conduct research on global health or health disparities.
I want to discuss rigor and transparency in neuroscience research (in general, not specific to a particular project).
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A therapeutic device
An assay or model system
A drug/small molecule
A biologic
A biomarker/biomarker signature
Two Non-Randomized Observational Therapies
Quality of Life Primary Outcome
Emergency or Prehospital Care
Stroke
General Neurology
PAIN Compound, Drug, or Device Use
Epilepsy, ion channels, synapses, and neural circuits (including technologies for recording and manipulating circuits); myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fatigue.
Stroke, cerebrovascular biology, neurovascular unit, blood-brain barrier, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and CNS infectious diseases.
Movement disorders including synucleinopathies (Parkinson’s disease, Lewy Body dementias, multiple system atrophy), dystonia, and essential tremor. Studies of underlying neurodegenerative processes; NINDS biospecimen and cell repositories; data science resources.
Neurodegeneration including the shared mechanisms of nerve cell death that contribute to many on juvenile- and adult-onset neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases; Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias; NIH NeuroBioBank.
Molecular determinants of normal neurodevelopment; neurodevelopmental, metabolic and neuromuscular disorders.
Nervous system repair and plasticity (including injury, stem cells, regeneration, and neural engineering).
Systems and cognitive neuroscience (including sensation, perception, movement, cognition, sleep, and pain).
Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative
Movement disorders including dystonia, essential tremor, synucleinopathies (Parkinson’s disease, Lewy Body dementias, multiple system atrophy) and studies of underlying neurodegenerative processes; NINDS biospecimen and cell repositories
Acquired epilepsies (with focus on circuit mechanisms, seizure initiation, seizure detection, seizure prediction); comorbidities and co-occurring conditions: cognitive impairments, ID, post-traumatic epilepsy, stroke-induced seizures, seizures in aging and development; basic research on synaptic transmission and plasticity.
Acquired epilepsies (with focus on epilepsies with immunological or infectious etiology); epilepsy prevention strategies, disease modifying interventions, and cell replacement therapies; comorbidities and co-occurring conditions: psychiatric and hormonal; Lafora Disease; temporal lobe epilepsy; basic research on synaptic function; tripartite synapse.
Molecular structure, function, and regulation of ion channels, transporters, and pumps; channelopathy; mitochondria and mTORopathy mediated epileptic spasms and structural epilepsies; identifying novel genes and biomarkers for the epilepsies.
Genetic epilepsies; metabolic epilepsy; sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP); clinical epilepsy research; myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fatigue; alternating hemiplegia of childrenfatigue.
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
Ischemic stroke, neuroprotection, biology of stroke repair and recovery, and blood-brain barrier.
Primary brain tumor (pediatric and young adult)
Primary brain tumor (adult)
Hemorrhagic stroke and aneurysm, pediatric/neurodevelopmental hypoxia-ischemic insults, cerebrovascular biology and pathophysiological mechanisms of stroke and recovery, stroke neuroimaging, and global cerebral ischemia
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders (including animal models thereof), studies on CNS demyelination and repair
HIV-associated neurological disorders, infectious diseases of the nervous system, neurovirology, and Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Program Lead; Point of Contact for Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), for example Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI), Vascular Dementia (VaD), Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA), and CADASIL
NIH Neurobiobank (human brain tissue banking)
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)
Alzheimer's disease (AD), Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE), and Multiple Etiology Dementia (MED)
Huntington's Disease; invertebrate neuromuscular junction synaptic development, structure, and function; NIH NeuroBioBank (human brain tissue banking).
Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCAs), Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA/FA), Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA), Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias (HSPs); Cell death mechanisms relevant to neurodegenerative disorders and not due to ischemia per se; Basic Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration including Mitochondrial / ER / Calcium homeostasis, RNA biology and protein turnover; Neuromuscular Junction Biology (vertebrate)
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD)
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
NIH Neurobiobank (human brain tissue banking)
Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCAs), Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA/FA), Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA), Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias (HSPs); Cell death mechanisms relevant to neurodegenerative disorders and not due to ischemia per se; Basic Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration including Mitochondrial / ER / Calcium homeostasis, RNA biology and protein turnover; Neuromuscular Junction Biology (vertebrate)
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD)
General glial biology; oligodendrocyte and Schwann cell development, function and myelination; basic astrocyte biology; neuronal polarity and migration; axon guidance
Technology development for gene-targeted therapies; various uncommon and rare diseases (including neural tube defects (spina bifida), hydrocephalus and normal pressure hydrocephalus, Tourette syndrome and tics, Neurofibromatosis 1 and 2, Schwannomatosis, Noonan Syndrome, inborn errors of metabolism, lysosomal storage disorders, leukodystrophies, brain iron accumulation disorders (NBIA), copper metabolism disorders, congenital disorders of glycosylation, mitochondrial disorders, and peroxisomal disorders); Ataxia Telangiectasia and basic studies on ATM mutation related DNA damage and DNA repair; neural crest and neural tube development
Muscular dystrophies; spinal muscular atrophy and inherited peripheral neuropathies (e.g. Charcot-Marie-Tooth, giant axonal neuropathy, familial dysautonomia) and inflammatory or autoimmune peripheral neuropathies (e.g. myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy); diabetic- and chemotherapy induced-peripheral neuropathies
Early pattern formation; cortical, cerebellar, midbrain, and hindbrain development; chromatin structure and function in the nervous system; epigenetic mechanisms; development and use of animal model systems; Joubert and Dandy-Walker Syndrome; Chiari Malformations; Down Syndrome and diseases related to intellectual developmental disorders; Fragile X Tremor Ataxia (FXTAS).
NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy; NIH Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP); NINDS Human Genetics DNA and Cell Line Repository
NIH Common Fund Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
Basic and translational studies that relate to traumatic brain injury (TBI); cognitive/emotional domains affected by TBI; TBI-related dementia including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Responses to spinal cord injury or peripheral nerve injury, including axonal regeneration; interventions to promote recovery and/or restore function
Neural interface technologies that record, modulate or stimulate neural activity; novel biomaterials for repair and neural interface devices; bioengineering applied to the nervous system (including development of hardware, software and computational techniques)
Neurogenesis and progenitor cell biology in nervous system development and function, application/treatment; tissue engineering; human embryonic stem cells; human fetal tissue; dendritic growth and plasticity
Translational and clinical studies that relate to traumatic brain injury (TBI); cognitive/emotional domains affected by TBI; TBI-related dementia including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTEÂ
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
Basic and translational aspects of behavior and cognitive neuroscience; CNS plasticity; Lewy Body Dementia; neuroimaging development (disease-agnostic).
HEAL Initiative Early Translational Efforts; HEAL PRECISION Human Pain Network
Motor control and learning; device-based or behavioral interventions for movement disorders, stroke, and cerebral palsy; neural rehabilitation.
Basic, preclinical, and clinical research in pain; peripheral and central mechanisms, pathways, circuits and processing of pain
CNS and homeostatic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms; sleep in neurological disorders; neuroendocrine systems.
Translational mechanistic pain research; itch, peripheral somatosensation, and glia/neuroimmune biology (non-pain); HEAL Initiative
Sensory and multi-sensory systems, cortical and thalamic circuits, integrative function of brain circuits, sensorimotor integration, computational neuroscience, and Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS), Smart and Connected Health (SCH)
Migraine and other headache disorders; trigeminal nociception; HEAL Initiative
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
BRAIN Integrated Approaches/Circuits Research Project Grants (R34, R01) and Exploratory Team-research BRAIN Circuit Program - eTeamBCP (U01); NINDS Collaborative Opportunities for Multidisciplinary, Bold, and Innovative Neuroscience (COMBINE RM1); team science; species diversity
Research Opportunities in Humans; BRAIN Initiative
Systems and computational neuroscience; BRAIN Initiative (integrative systems neuroscience; intracortical human neuroscience (U01); team-research brain circuits programs (U19))
BRAIN Initiative Neurotechnology Development Program, BRAIN CONNECTS Program
BRAIN Initiative Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (U24)
BRAIN Initiative New Technologies (R01, RF1); BRAIN Initiative Optimization (U01)
BRAIN CONNECTS Program
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
NINDS Biorepository (BioSEND); NINDS Human Cell and Data Repository (NHCDR); NINDS Biospecimen Resource Access Committees (BRACs)
Structural, biochemical, molecular, and cellular aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia (LBD) as it relates to alpha-synuclein structure, mitochondrial biology, and lysosomal function; role of environmental factors in the etiology of synucleinopathies; basic studies of protein quality control (mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction, protein aggregation, mitophagy, autophagy) in the pathogenesis of PD and LBD
Synucleinopathies, including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Lewy body dementias; preclinical and clinical studies evaluating cellular and molecular neurodegeneration, genetic, and other risk factors
Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Lewy Body Dementias (LBD), and related synucleinopathies focusing on biomarker discovery and validation, omics-based approaches, clinical genetics, epidemiology, and natural history studies.
None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.
Are you a small business?
Involves a multi-center early phase/Phase 2 study
Involves an exploratory/Phase 1 study
Involves a Randomized, Phase III Comparative Effectiveness study
I want to browse by career stage or specific eligibility criteria (diversity, clinician-scientist)
I have other questions, whom should I contact?
I want to learn more about Diversity Training and Career Development Programs.
I have a question about the effects of COVID-19 on training mechanism.
I am trying to figure out which grant to apply to.
I am in the process of writing a grant application.
I am in the process of submitting or resubmitting a grant application.
I have submitted my grant application and want to learn more about the review process.
High School Through Faculty Awards
Predoctoral Awards
Postdoctoral Awards
Junior Faculty Awards
Specific Institutional Eligibility
Institutional Programs
Postdoctoral
Faculty Awards
Clinician-Scientist Awards
Institutional Clinician-Scientist Research Training Programs
Research Education Programs
Institutional National Research Service Award Training Programs
Specific Institutional Eligibility
Administrative Supplements
F30 - Individual NRSA for Dual-Doctoral Degree Students in non-MSTP Institutions
F31 - Individual NRSA for Diverse PhD Students
F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions
F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions
F32 B114 NINDS Postdoctoral NRSA Fellowship
K99/R00 - MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity
K99/R00 - NIH Pathway to Independence Award
K99/K00 BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity
F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions
K22 - NINDS Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research
K22 - Career Transition Award for NINDS Intramural Clinician-Scientists
K01 - NINDS Postdoctoral Career Development Award
K01 - NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research
K02 - Independent Scientist Award
K08 - Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award
K23 - Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award
K12 - Neurosurgeon Research Career Development Program (NRCDP)
K12 - Child Neurologist Career Development Program (CNCDP)
R25 - Research Education Programs for Residents & Fellows
R25 - NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce
R25 - NINDS Research Education Opportunities
R25 - NIH Blueprint ENDURE
R25 - Summer Research Experience for High School & Undergraduate Students
T32 - NINDS Institutional Research Training Grant
T32 - Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program (JSPTPN
SC1 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award
SC2 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award
SC3 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Continuance Award
SUP-Supplements to Promote Diversity in Research and Development Small Businesses - SBIR/STTR
SUP - Admin Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH Mentored Career Development (K) Award Recipients
SUP - NIH BRAIN Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity
SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry into Research Careers
SUP - AD/ADRD Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
SUP - Admin Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH First Time Recipients of NIH Research Project Grant (R) Awards
SUP - NIH HEAL Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity
SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
I want to learn if my grant is a good fit for NINDS.
I want to learn more about diversity specific programs and fellowships.
I have other questions. Whom should I contact?
I have questions about completing the application or about the NOFO itself.
I have questions about my papers, mentors, aims, or recommendations.
I have questions about the competitiveness of the grant.
I have other questions. Whom should I contact?
I have questions about the application deadline.
I have other questions. Whom should I contact?
I want to learn more about the success rate, payline, and scoring process.
I have questions about who is reviewing my application.
I have other questions. Whom should I contact?
SUP - Supplements to Promote Diversity in Research and Development Small Businesses-SBIR/STTR
SUP - NIH BRAIN Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity
SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
SUP - Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
SUP - NIH HEAL Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity
F31 - Individual NRSA for Diverse PhD Students
F99/K00 - NIH Blueprint D-SPAN Award
K22 - NINDS Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research
K99/R00 - BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity
K99/R00 - MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity
K01 - NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research
SC1 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award
SC2 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award
SC3 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Continuance Award
R25 - NIH Blueprint ENDURE
R25 - NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce
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