Status of Applications and Awards under the New NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research
Funding Contact: NINDS Funding Coordinator
Funding Categories: Channels, Synapses and Circuits, Clinical Research, Neurodegeneration, Neurogenetics, Repair and Plasticity, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Translational Research
Brief Description:
The final NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research became effective on July 7, 2009, implementing President Barack H. Obama’s
Executive Order 13505 Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells. The NIH Guidelines
establish policy and procedures under which the NIH will fund human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. The final NIH Guidelines
are available at: http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp.