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I have a question about Training and Career Development and/or Diversity programs or fellowships. I want to talk to someone about a specific Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). I know the NOFO number or program name (BRAIN, HEAL, Blueprint, AD/ADRD, CounterACT, Common Fund) I am developing a potential therapeutic (small molecule, biologic or device) orI am a small business. I want to conduct a clinical trial that takes advantage of NINDS clinical networks. I want to discuss how neuroethics or bioethics fits into my research area. I want to conduct research on global health or health disparities. I want to discuss rigor and transparency in neuroscience research (in general, not specific to a particular project). I want to talk to someone about my research proposal (basic research, neural mechanisms, or disease mechanisms).

I have a question about mentorship and career development. I have a question about the grant application process. I have an award and I have questions about it I have general questions about the grant cycle at NINDS and/or NIH and would like some resources.

A therapeutic device An assay or model system A drug/small molecule A biologic A biomarker/biomarker signature

Two Non-Randomized Observational Therapies Quality of Life Primary Outcome Emergency or Prehospital Care Stroke General Neurology PAIN Compound, Drug, or Device Use

Epilepsy, ion channels, synapses, and neural circuits (including technologies for recording and manipulating circuits); myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fatigue. Stroke, cerebrovascular biology, neurovascular unit, blood-brain barrier, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and CNS infectious diseases. Neurodegeneration and neurodegenerative diseases (including the shared mechanisms of nerve cell death that contribute to many diseases), Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), NINDS tissue/cell resources, basic invertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Molecular determinants of normal neurodevelopment; neurodevelopmental, metabolic and neuromuscular disorders. Nervous system repair and plasticity (including injury, stem cells, regeneration, and neural engineering). Systems and cognitive neuroscience (including sensation, perception, movement, cognition, sleep, and pain). Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative

Acquired epilepsies (with focus on circuit mechanisms, seizure initiation, seizure detection, seizure prediction); comorbidities and co-occurring conditions: cognitive impairments, ID, post-traumatic epilepsy, stroke-induced seizures, seizures in aging and development; basic research on synaptic transmission and plasticity. Acquired epilepsies (with focus on epilepsies with immunological or infectious etiology); epilepsy prevention strategies, disease modifying interventions, and cell replacement therapies; comorbidities and co-occurring conditions: psychiatric and hormonal; Lafora Disease; temporal lobe epilepsy; basic research on synaptic function; tripartite synapse. Molecular structure, function, and regulation of ion channels, transporters, and pumps; channelopathy; mitochondria and mTORopathy mediated epileptic spasms and structural epilepsies; identifying novel genes and biomarkers for the epilepsies. Genetic epilepsies; metabolic epilepsy; sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP); clinical epilepsy research; myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fatigue; alternating hemiplegia of childrenfatigue. None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

Ischemic stroke, neuroprotection, biology of stroke repair and recovery, and blood-brain barrier. Primary brain tumor (pediatric and young adult) Primary brain tumor (adult) and immunotherapy Hemorrhagic stroke and aneurysm, pediatric/neurodevelopmental hypoxia-ischemic insults, cerebrovascular biology and pathophysiological mechanisms of stroke and recovery, stroke neuroimaging, and global cerebral ischemia Multiple sclerosis and related disorders (including animal models thereof), studies on CNS demyelination and repair HIV-associated neurological disorders, infectious diseases of the nervous system, neurovirology, and Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

Structural, molecular, biochemical, and cellular aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD) as it relates to protein aggregation, mitochondria, and protein processing Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), for example vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), vascular dementia (VaD), cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), and CADASIL. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, Friedreich’s Ataxia; apoptosis and cell death mechanisms relevant to neurodegenerative disorders and not due to ischemia per se; neuromuscular junction biology (vertebrate). Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Multiple etiology dementias (MED); Frontotemporal Dementia and associated subtypes Huntington's Disease; Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCAs); invertebrate neuromuscular junction synaptic development, structure, and function; NIH Neurobiobank (human brain tissue banking). Parkinson’s disease (neuronal loss/repair, circuit dysfunction, neuroinflammation, microbiome, and Udall Centers of Excellence); synucleinopathies (multiple system atrophy (MSA) and preclinical studies of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD)); other movement disorders (dystonia, preclinical and genetic studies of essential tremor) Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP); NINDS Biorepository (BioSEND); NINDS Human Cell and Data Repository (NHCDR); Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Parkinson's Disease (AMP-PD); NINDS Biospecimen Resource Access Committees (BRACs) Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD); Diverse VCID: White Matter Lesion Etiology of Dementia in Diverse Populations; Determinants of Incident Stroke Cognitive Outcomes and Vascular Effects on Recovery (DISCOVERY) None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

Molecular determinants of normal neurodevelopment involving neurotrophic factor signaling mechanisms; transcriptional regulation; mechanisms of RNA transport and local translation in neurons; Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); and related neurodevelopmental disorders (including Tuberous sclerosis complex, Rett Syndrome, CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, Fragile X Syndrome, Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, Angelman and 15q11-q13 duplication Syndromes, and other rare, genetic forms of ASD). General glia biology; oligodendrocyte and Schwann cell development, function and myelination; neural crest and neural tube development; technology development for gene-targeted therapies; various uncommon and rare diseases (including neural tube defects (spina bifida), hydrocephalus and normal pressure hydrocephalus, Tourette syndrome and tics, Neurofibromatosis 1 and 2, Schwannomatosis, Noonan Syndrome, inborn errors of metabolism, lysosomal storage disorders, leukodystrophies, brain iron accumulation disorders (NBIA), copper metabolism disorders, congenital disorders of glycosylation, mitochondrial disorders, and peroxisomal disorders) Muscular dystrophies; spinal muscular atrophy and inherited peripheral neuropathies (e.g. Charcot-Marie-Tooth, giant axonal neuropathy, familial dysautonomia) and inflammatory or autoimmune peripheral neuropathies (e.g. myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy); diabetic- and chemotherapy induced-peripheral neuropathies Early pattern formation; neural polarity and migration; axonal guidance; cortical, cerebellar, midbrain, and hindbrain development; chromatin structure and function in the nervous system; epigenetic mechanisms; development and use of animal model systems; Joubert and Dandy-Walker Syndrome; Chiari Malformations; Down Syndrome and diseases related to intellectual developmental disorders; Fragile X Tremor Ataxia (FXTAS) Ataxia Telangiectasia and basic studies on ATM mutation related DNA damage and DNA repair; NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy; NIH Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP); NINDS Human Genetics DNA and Cell Line Repository NIH Common Fund Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

Basic and translational studies that relate to traumatic brain injury (TBI); cognitive/emotional domains affected by TBI; TBI-related dementia including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Responses to spinal cord injury or peripheral nerve injury, including axonal regeneration; interventions to promote recovery and/or restore function Neural interface technologies that record, modulate or stimulate neural activity; novel biomaterials for repair and neural interface devices; bioengineering applied to the nervous system (including development of hardware, software and computational techniques) Neurogenesis and progenitor cell biology in nervous system development and function, application/treatment; tissue engineering; human embryonic stem cells; human fetal tissue; dendritic growth and plasticity; astrocyte biology. Translational and clinical studies that relate to traumatic brain injury (TBI); cognitive/emotional domains affected by TBI; TBI-related dementia including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE  None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

Basic and translational aspects of behavior and cognitive neuroscience; CNS plasticity; Lewy Body Dementia; neuroimaging development (disease-agnostic). HEAL Initiative Early Translational Efforts Motor control and learning; device-based or behavioral interventions for movement disorders, stroke, and cerebral palsy; neural rehabilitation. CNS and homeostatic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms; sleep in neurological disorders; neuroendocrine systems. Peripheral and spinal mechanisms of somatosensation; neurobiology of itch; glia/neuro-immune biology. For investigators whose last name starts with L-Z: basic, translational, and clinical research in pain; NIH HEAL Initiative. Integrative function of brain circuits, sensorimotor integration, multi-sensory processing, sensory systems, thalamo-cortical functions, systems neurobiology, computational neuroscience, and Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Migraine and other headache disorders. For investigators whose last name starts with A-K: basic, translational, and clinical research in pain; NIH HEAL Initiative. None of the above. I want to use my abstract or specific aims to find the right person to talk to.

BRAIN Integrated Approaches/Circuits Research Project Grants (R34, R01) and Team exploratory research (U01); BRAIN Initiated Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00); NINDS Team Science RM1 Systems and computational neuroscience; BRAIN Initiative (integrative systems neuroscience; intracortical human neuroscience (U01); team-research brain circuits programs (U19)) BRAIN Initiative Neurotechnology Development Program BRAIN CONNECTS Program BRAIN Initiative Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (U24)

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I want to browse by career stage or specific eligibility criteria (diversity, clinician-scientist) I have other questions, whom should I contact? I want to learn more about Diversity Training and Career Development Programs. I have a question about the effects of COVID-19 on training mechanism.

I am trying to figure out which grant to apply to. I am in the process of writing a grant application. I am in the process of submitting or resubmitting a grant application. I have submitted my grant application and want to learn more about the review process.

High School Through Faculty Awards Predoctoral Awards Postdoctoral Awards Junior Faculty Awards Specific Institutional Eligibility Institutional Programs

Individual Fellowships: Research training opportunities for trainees at the graduate and postdoctoral levels. Career Development Awards: Research training opportunities for scientists and clinical-researchers at the postdoctoral and early career faculty levels. Institutional Grants: Research training opportunities on an institutional level to support multiple scientists and clinician-researchers at all levels of training. Other Training-Related Programs: These programs have unique elements including specific institutional eligibility or supplementation of an existing NINDS award. I have other questions, whom should I contact?

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Postdoctoral Faculty Awards Clinician-Scientist Awards

Institutional Clinician-Scientist Research Training Programs Research Education Programs Institutional National Research Service Award Training Programs

Specific Institutional Eligibility Administrative Supplements

You should contact someone in our Office of Programs to Enhance Neuroscience Workforce Diversity: The mission of OPEN is to represent NINDS at all levels of NIH in matters pertaining to NINDS workforce diversity and to develop and implement specific funding opportunities for training and career development programs to facilitate a diverse scientific workforce in the neurosciences.
Michelle Jones-London, PhD (Chief), Lauren Ullrich, PhD (Program Director), or Marguerite Matthews, PhD (Scientific Program Manager) You should contact someone in our Office of Training & Career Development: OTCD develops, implements, and evaluates training and career development programs and activities to facilitate the creation of a future scientific workforce in the neurosciences.Stephen Korn, PhD (Director), K. Rezaizadeh, PhD (Health Program Specialist), or Michael Tennekoon, PhD (Health Program Specialist)

You should contact someone in our Office of Programs to Enhance Neuroscience Workforce Diversity: The mission of OPEN is to represent NINDS at all levels of NIH in matters pertaining to NINDS workforce diversity and to develop and implement specific funding opportunities for training and career development programs to facilitate a diverse scientific workforce in the neurosciences.
Michelle Jones-London, PhD (Chief), Lauren Ullrich, PhD (Program Director), or Marguerite Matthews, PhD (Scientific Program Manager) You should contact someone in our Office of Training & Career Development: OTCD develops, implements, and evaluates training and career development programs and activities to facilitate the creation of a future scientific workforce in the neurosciences.Stephen Korn, PhD (Director), K. Rezaizadeh, PhD (Health Program Specialist), or Michael Tennekoon, PhD (Health Program Specialist)

F30 - Individual NRSA for Dual-Doctoral Degree Students in non-MSTP Institutions F31 - Individual NRSA for Diverse PhD Students F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions

F32 B114 NINDS Postdoctoral NRSA Fellowship

K99/R00 - MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity K99/R00 - NIH Pathway to Independence Award K99/K00 BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity F31 - Individual NRSA for PhD Students & MD/PhD Students from MSTP Institutions K22 - NINDS Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research K22 - Career Transition Award for NINDS Intramural Clinician-Scientists K01 - NINDS Postdoctoral Career Development Award

K01 - NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research

K02 - Independent Scientist Award K08 - Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award K23 - Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award

K12 - Neurosurgeon Research Career Development Program (NRCDP) K12 - Child Neurologist Career Development Program (CNCDP) R25 - Research Education Programs for Residents & Fellows

R25 - NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce R25 - NINDS Research Education Opportunities R25 - NIH Blueprint ENDURE R25 - Summer Research Experience for High School & Undergraduate Students

T32 - NINDS Institutional Research Training Grant T32 - Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program (JSPTPN

SC1 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award SC2 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award SC3 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Continuance Award

SUP-Supplements to Promote Diversity in Research and Development Small Businesses - SBIR/STTR SUP - Admin Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH Mentored Career Development (K) Award Recipients SUP - NIH BRAIN Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry into Research Careers SUP - AD/ADRD Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research SUP - Admin Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH First Time Recipients of NIH Research Project Grant (R) Awards SUP - NIH HEAL Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

I want to learn if my grant is a good fit for NINDS. I want to learn more about diversity specific programs and fellowships. I have other questions. Whom should I contact?

I have questions about completing the application or about the NOFO itself. I have questions about my papers, mentors, aims, or recommendations. I have questions about the competitiveness of the grant. I have other questions. Whom should I contact?

I have questions about the application deadline. I have other questions. Whom should I contact?

I want to learn more about the success rate, payline, and scoring process. I have questions about who is reviewing my application. I have other questions. Whom should I contact?

SUP - Supplements to Promote Diversity in Research and Development Small Businesses-SBIR/STTR SUP - NIH BRAIN Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity SUP - Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research SUP - Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research SUP - NIH HEAL Initiative Research Supplements to Promote Diversity

F31 - Individual NRSA for Diverse PhD Students F99/K00 - NIH Blueprint D-SPAN Award

K22 - NINDS Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research K99/R00 - BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity K99/R00 - MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity

K01 - NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research

SC1 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award SC2 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award SC3 - Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Continuance Award

R25 - NIH Blueprint ENDURE R25 - NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce

For specific NINDS guidance listen to the Building Up the Nerve, a podcast from NINDS for neuroscience trainees that takes you through the life cycle of a grant from idea to award at NINDS with the people who make it happen. NIH OER - Read for an orientation to NIH funding, grant programs, how the grants process works, and how to apply. NIAID investigators have graciously agreed to share their exceptional applications and summary statements as samples to help the research community. Find example forms, sharing plans, letters, emails, and more.