Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline

Brain Research Foundation: Scientific Innovations Award
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 7, 2023
Sponsor LOI Deadline (if nominated): June 22, 2023
Award Amount: $150,000 over two years. Indirect costs are not permitted whereas 15% is required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before beginning an application. 

The Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting-edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators. The objective of the program is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and significant publications in high impact journals.

Harvard University, including all schools and affiliated institutions, is viewed as a single institution, and may nominate one proposal for consideration for this award. In order to be considered for the nomination, interested applicants from FAS or SEAS must first submit an internal pre-proposal to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at the link above. Applicants with a primary appointment on the HMS Quad or at an HMS-affiliated institution must apply through the process facilitated by the HMS Foundation Funds Program.

Eligibility: The nominated candidate must be a full-time associate professor or full professor, working in the area of studies of brain function in health and disease. Current major NIH or other peer-reviewed funding is preferred and evidence of such funding in the past three years is essential. Studies should be related to either normal human brain development or specifically identified disease states. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease. The grant proposal must detail a new research project that is not funded by other sources.