Simons Foundation Neuroscience Collaborations: Sponsor Vision Statement Deadline:

Simons Foundation Neuroscience CollaborationsSponsor Vision Statement Deadline: March 8, 2023 by 12 PM ESTFAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days in advance of the full proposal deadlineFull Proposal Deadline: Anticipated in September 2023Award Amount: The total budget for the new Neuroscience Collaborations will be $25 million per year and up to three collaborations will be funded. The suggested budget is $5–12 million per year, inclusive of 20 percent indirect costs. Collaborations will be funded for 10 years (with a review at year 5).

The Simons Foundation is seeking vision statements to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of neuroscience that are poised for high-impact funding by the Simons Foundation. The foundation is interested in bold and cutting edge, idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of brain function and may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations.

The foundation will prioritize cross-disciplinary collaborations integrating many levels of analysis, methodologies, ways of thinking and scientific communities. The collaborations should encourage conversations within and across fields while bringing together diverse groups of researchers to investigate important questions about the basic principles of brain function. Investigators in a Simons Collaboration are expected to openly share data, code, analysis pipelines, protocols and reagents with the broader community. The foundation expects proposals to include junior investigators and investigators from a diversity of academic disciplines, genders, races and ethnicities.

An informational webinar was recorded on December 12, 2022. Please click here to view the recording.