Purpose
To encourage applications for the continuation of ongoing and creation of new courses for skills development that will significantly advance the educational goals of the BRAIN Initiative, including neuroethics and opportunities to increase the workforce diversity in BRAIN Initiative research areas.
Program Announcement
RFA-EY-21-003
Due Dates for all Applications
February 15, 2022, February 15, 2023, February 15, 2024
PD/PI Eligibility
Established investigators
Appointee Eligibility
Graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early career faculty; U.S. citizens or permanent residents
Institution Eligibility
U.S. domestic institutions
Additional Information
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this NOFO will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on courses for skills development.
The purpose of this NOFO is to encourage applications for the continuation of ongoing and creation of new courses for skills development that will significantly advance the educational goals of the BRAIN Initiative as described in The BRAIN Initiative®2.0: From Cells to Circuits, Toward Cures including neuroethics and opportunities to increase the workforce diversity in BRAIN Initiative research areas. Proposed programs are expected to offer hands-on research experiences, an in-depth conceptual understanding of the techniques and tools employed, and the knowledge to apply appropriate analytic approaches to the resulting data. Participants are limited to graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early-career faculty with an emphasis on diversity as defined by NIH (NOT-OD-20-031). Proposed programs will facilitate the development of a sophisticated cadre of future investigators with the knowledge and skills to apply BRAIN Initiative techniques and approaches and data resources to research questions about brain function and behavior. Programs appropriate for this NOFO must include participants from a regionally/nationally recruited cohort.
Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to submit a Letter of Intent to Dr. Neeraj Agarwal. See Program Announcement for more details. The due date for the Letter of Intent is 30 days prior to the application due date.
Contact
Neeraj Agarwal, PhD | Program Director, NEI
agarwalnee@nei.nih.gov
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