Funding Opportunities for NINDS Grantees

Please continue to check this web page. We will continue to list new Recovery Act and Economic Stimulus opportunities here as they become available.
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• Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) (RFA-OD-09-007)
  The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.
  
• Application Due Date: September 25, 2009
  
  
• Opportunities targeted at for-profit small businesses 
  • Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program (RC3), RFA-OD-09-008
  • Recovery Act Limited Competition: Small Business Catalyst Awards for Accelerating Innovative Research (R43) , RFA-OD-09-009
• Application Due Date: September 1, 2009
  
  
• NINDS Challenge Grants
  The new program will support 2-year grants that can both stimulate the economy and advance neuroscience research in support of the NINDS mission of reducing the burden of neurological disease.
  Application Due Date: April 27, 2009
  
  
• NINDS Grand Opportunities (GO) Grants
  The purpose of the "GO" grant program is to support high impact ideas that lend themselves to short-term, non-renewable funding and may lay the foundation for new fields of investigation.
  Application Due Date: May 29, 2009
  
  
• NINDS Supplement Program
  NINDS will utilize some of the funds made available under the ARRA to supplement existing NINDS grants during FY2009 and FY2010. Three types of supplements have been made available:
  1. Administrative Supplements for research that falls within the scope of an NINDS-funded project
     Application Due Date: July 1, 2009
  2. Administrative Supplements to Foster Summer Research Experience
  3. Competitive Revisions (also called Competitive Supplements)
  Please see individual announcements for Application Due Dates
  
  
  
• Supporting New Faculty Recruitment
  The purpose of this announcement is to provide resources that will facilitate the hiring of new faculty into secure, tenure-track or equivalent positions.
  Letter of Intent Receipt Date: April 29, 2009
  Application Due Date: May 29, 2009
  
  
• Opportunities from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
  NCMHD has issued the following Recovery Act Limited Competition RFA's
  • NCMHD Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase (R24), RFA-MD-09-006
  • NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20), RFA-MD-09-007
  • NCMHD Dissertation Research Award to Increase Diversity (R36), RFA-MD-09-008
  Please see individual announcements for Application Due Dates
  
  
  
• Opportunities targeted at for-profit small businesses 
  • Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program (RC3), RFA-OD-09-008
  • Recovery Act Limited Competition: Small Business Catalyst Awards for Accelerating Innovative Research (R43) , RFA-OD-09-009
• Application Due Date: September 1, 2009