The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) received a $1,378,728 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to conduct research on the neural circuits underlying biological motion perception and social engagement. The project aims to investigate the development of social brain networks in the micro glassfish (Danionella cerebrum) vertebrate model, leveraging its genetic amenability, small size, and optical...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $1,034,229 to Albert Einstein College of Medicine to conduct research on the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying infant-directed behavior in both males and females. The key objectives of this 5-year grant are to: 1) determine how circuit activity in molecularly defined neuronal...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) received a $126,462 Project Grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, will fund research to functionally and architecturally characterize the RFRP neuronal population and its developmental plasticity to delineate its role in pubertal timing. The overarching...
This $14.48 million cooperative agreement from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will fund research into the neural dynamics driving affiliation and attachment. Awarded to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853), the project aims to examine how the neurobiology underlying affiliative behaviors in mice is adapted to support more...
The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $3,360,153 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish scalable, high-throughput methods and analytical tools for linking the molecular identities of neural cell types to their synaptic connectivity. The research aims to develop spatial transcriptomic approaches (TRANSA-MERFISH...
This Project Grant award, identified as F32HD115302, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $241,032 award supports a comprehensive investigation by a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California into the neurophysiological underpinnings of clinically observable sensory reactivity features in infants at varying levels...
This $185,388 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to investigate the molecular and spatial mechanisms underlying gene regulatory redundancy during mammalian development. The primary objectives are to identify the distinct transcription factors driving each "shadow...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support research into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying maternal behavior in mice. The $1,572,111 award to Baylor College of Medicine aims to elucidate the role of the TRPC5 ion channel in regulating maternal behaviors, such as pup retrieval and nursing, and to assess whether...
This federal Project Grant award for $131,085 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to define the experience-driven neural mechanisms that enhance behavioral performance in male mating in mice. The project will delineate the afferent inputs onto preoptic hypothalamus neurons expressing tachykinin receptor 1, which regulate male mating. It will...
This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...