NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21)

Funding Contact(s): NINDS Review
Funding Categories: Channels, Synapses and Circuits, Minority Health and Research, Neural Environment, Neurodegeneration, Neurogenetics, Repair and Plasticity, Small Business, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Training and Career Development, Translational Research

Brief Description:
The Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.

Grant Mechanism: R21
NIH Guide: PA-06-181
Release Date: 2006-03-02
Expiration Date: 2009-05-08