NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

Probes for Microimaging The Nervous System (SBIR [R43/R44])

Funding Contact(s): Daofen Chen, Ph.D.
Funding Categories: Small Business, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

Brief Description:
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose research and development of probes useful in imaging the structure and function of the brain and other parts of the nervous system, with award duration and amounts greater than those routinely allowed under the SBIR programs. Specifically this FOA invites SBIR applications that propose research and development of probes that generate signals detectable by one or more imaging modality. Such probes should indicate the structure or function of molecules or subcellular elements of neurons or other cells of the nervous system. Of special interest are applications that propose research and development of novel probes, although significant enhancements of already existing probes are also invited. Grant applications may propose projects that will result in probes solely intended for use in research or probes that might have clinical utility. It is expected that this initiative will require expertise from a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, biotechnology, and bioengineering. Moreover, it is anticipated that these types of expertise will be brought together in various combinations in individual proposed projects.

Grant Mechanism: R43/R44
NIH Guide: PA-09-062
Release Date: 2008-12-18
Expiration Date: 2012-01-08