NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

Limited Competition for the Global Research Initiative Program, Basic/Biomedical Sciences (R01)

Funding Contact(s): Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
Funding Categories: International Activities

Brief Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Fogarty International Institute (FIC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Office of Dietary Supplements, Office of the Director (ODS), the National Eye Institute (NEI), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct basic biomedical research relevant to global health. This program is intended to promote productive development of foreign investigators from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), trained in the U.S. or in their home countries through an eligible NIH funded research or research training grant/award. It is expected that this program will stimulate research on a wide variety of high priority health-related issues in those countries, and advance NIH efforts to address important global health issues.

Grant Mechanism: R01
NIH Guide: PAR-10-278
Release Date: 2010-09-15
Expiration Date: 2013-03-09