This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program provides $537,754 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the mechanisms of neuronal temporal fate specification. The objectives are to (1) gain deeper insight into temporal fate patterning in the Drosophila brain model, and (2) explore the role of mouse...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a Project Grant totaling $1,341,874 under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The grant, which runs from December 15, 2024 to November 30, 2032, supports research focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms controlling dendrite development, function, degeneration, and...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $1,155,143 Project Grant (CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on "Subcortico-Cortical Mechanisms of Sensorimotor Coordination, Integration, and Learning." The project period runs from May 15, 2024 to April 30, 2032. Through this...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,008,977.00 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The grant supports research to understand human brain development and the origins of neurodevelopmental diseases, with a focus on studying recently-discovered neural progenitor cell types in the outer subventricular zone of the developing human cerebral...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program, provides $397,500.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research on understanding the fundamental mechanisms enabling network-scale neural regeneration. The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Systematically ablating...
This Project Grant award of $1,271,040.00 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853) supports innovative research at Rockefeller University aimed at discovering new therapeutic targets for neurological diseases. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing and validating new model systems to enable unexpected discoveries about the...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $1,887,055 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant, titled "Genetic Control Mechanisms of Long-Term Neuronal Survival," aims to unravel the fundamental mechanisms enabling mature neurons to persist throughout an organism's lifespan. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $582,246 in funding to the University of Rochester to study the structural dynamics and functional impact of human neural precursor cell (NPC) transplantation in adult cortical circuits in mice. The 5-year research project aims to develop advanced in vivo imaging and...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $135,000 Project Grant titled "The NeuroCity Initiative: Empowering Underrepresented Scholars to Pursue Careers in Neuroscience" to the University of Rochester. This 5-year grant (12/1/2024 - 11/30/2029) under CFDA 93.853 "Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders" aims to provide an immersive research experience, rigorous career development program, and continuous...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $646,000 project grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The funding will support research to identify the neural processes within the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) that underlie individual variation in cue-motivated behavior. Using fluorescence-based...