Funding
Current Funding
NIH BRAIN Initiative R34 Grant (2024–2026)
The BRAIN Initiative R34 Grant is designed to support exploratory and planning activities for future large-scale neuroscience research projects. This grant aims to facilitate the development of basic science research that focuses on understanding how circuit activity drives behavior or neural system dynamics. It provides essential funding to help researchers design projects that lead to Targeted BRAIN Circuits Projects R01 applications, fostering cross-species and comparative approaches to uncover general principles of brain function.
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Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Winter Pilot Award (2023–2025)
The goal of the Pilot Award program is to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses, that have the potential to yield transformative results in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research. In particular, the program seeks to support research to link genetic or other ASD risk factors to molecular, cellular, circuit or behavioral mechanisms and set the stage for development of novel interventions.
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BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 (2020-2025)
The purpose of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to enhance workforce diversity in the neuroscience workforce and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds in BRAIN Initiative research areas.
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Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award (2022-2024)
The BBRF Young Investigator Grants provide two years of funding to begin careers as independent research faculty or extend research fellowship training. The goal of the YI program is to help researchers launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry and gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants.
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Past Funding
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2019-2022)
BWF makes grants primarily to degree-granting institutions on behalf of individual researchers. To complement these competitive award programs, BWF also makes grants to nonprofit organizations conducting activities intended to improve the general environment for science.
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L’Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship (2020)
The L’Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship program awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each for their contributions in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations.
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Ford Fellowship (2019)
Through its program of fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
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Simons Center for Social Brain Fellowship (2017-2019)
The mission of the Simons Center for the Social Brain is to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and behavior, and to translate this knowledge into better diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2013 - 2016)
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US institutions. Fellowships provide each student with a three-year annual stipend, a cost of education allowance, and access to opportunities for professional development.
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