At a glance
This program funds new methods and tools to measure brain changes across longer periods of life, including hardware, software, and other experimental advances. It is open to many applicant types, including nonprofits, universities, governments, small businesses, and foreign organizations, and applications may include human subjects or animals, with at least two timepoints required. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over two years, with no more than $200,000 in any single year, and the project period may not exceed two years. No cost sharing is required. Applications with foreign subawards or subcontracts are not allowed, and projects without in vivo measurements, two timepoints, a scientific component showing the method expands brain measurement across the lifespan, or annual milestones will not be reviewed.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage multidisciplinary investigators to submit applications developing exploratory, highly novel new approaches, or innovative applications of existing approaches to measure brain activity, connectivity, genomics, or other aspects across the age spectrum of neurodevelopment. The overarching goal is to extend our understanding of brain development and aging, including studies of the neurodevelopmental origins of later health and disease, by improving repeated measures across longer epochs of the lifespan to better predict outcomes at later ages. . Research can include healthy human participants of any age, specific clinical groups such those with cognitive, motor, or affective regulation challenges, and/or animal research on these domains of function. The studies can focus on longitudinal neuroanatomical or functional changes at any level, including genetics/genomics, single cells, connectomics, neural population activity patterns, and others. This funding opportunity is intended to encourage technological and conceptual innovation through this high risk, high reward funding mechanism to develop highly innovative ideas that either lack preliminary data or need additional preliminary data
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments