The Brain Research Foundation program's objective is to
support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional
funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important
findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will
yield high-impact findings and result in major grant applications and funding
as well as significant publications in high-impact journals.



The nominee must be a full-time associate professor/full
professor working in neuroscience, neurology, neurobiology, physiology,
psychiatry, psychology, or related disciplines, proposing scientific projects
with a focus on brain health and disease, including cancer. Current major
NIH or other peer-reviewed funding is preferred but evidence of such funding in
the past three years is essential. The support focus is for new research
projects of the highest scientific merit. 

The grant period is for two years, totaling $150,000.