Grant Amount: $70,000, up to two years
Deadline: March 23, 2023
Additional Information -
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's BBRF Young Investigator Grant program is intended to facilitate innovative research opportunities and supports basic, as well as translational and/or clinical investigators. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders such as: schizophrenia; bipolar; mood and anxiety disorders or early onset brain and behavior disorders.
In addition to supporting the full ranges of relevant neurobiological and psychobiological basic science, we also support clinical science, which can include careful studies using qualitative research approaches or research generating preliminary data to explore a new hypothesis generated by clinical experience or large sample studies.
The BBRF Young Investigator Grant is not sufficient to support expensive large sample patient-based studies but it may be possible to attach a study to a clinical project already under way or for which other funding has become available.
Grant Requirements:
- BBRF welcomes diversity with BBRF grant applications including gender, race, ethnicity, and culture of the applicant, and geographic location for their proposed work.
- Applicants must have a doctoral level degree and already be employed in research training or a faculty research position.
- Applicants must have an on-site mentor or senior collaborator who is an established investigator in areas relevant to psychiatric disorders. The mentor/sponsor role is usually extensive for fellowship extension (mentor), and more senior colleague/advisor (sponsor) for an applicant prepared to initiate independent science.
- Applicants may only apply twice for an initial BBRF Young Investigator Grant.
- Applicants are eligible for a maximum of two BBRF Young Investigator Grants.
- Only one principal investigator is allowed per application.
- Funding is for one or two years and is up to $35,000 per year. The Foundation does not pay institutional overhead on the BBRF Young Investigator Grant Program.
- The Foundation allows considerable flexibility in the use of funds: equipment, stipends, etc., are all acceptable as long as the support is in the service of the BBRF Young Investigator Grant research project.
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.