The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $427,625 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.853) to The Washington University in St. Louis. The research project aims to develop a novel cellular model for investigating the mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using directly converted neurons derived from patient...
This 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), provides $676,388 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. to conduct research on how proteins involved in neuronal polarity and migration also play a direct role in regulating chromatin organization during neuronal development. The key objectives are to define how the proteins SIAH2 and...
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), 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...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $644,008 Project Grant (CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant, awarded on February 21, 2025, supports research investigating the role of non-vesicular lipid transport at endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane (ER-PM) contact sites in phosphoinositide...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $189,350 Cooperative Agreement to Stanford University under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program. The purpose of this 5-year award, effective July 1, 2024, is to establish an innovative R25 training program to increase the recruitment, retention, and successful transition of diverse...
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...
This $195,570 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) supports research to investigate the role of the molecular co-chaperone DNAJC7 in protein homeostasis and its potential therapeutic implications for neurodegenerative diseases. The 5-year research project, with an award date of August 1, 2024 and a completion date of June 30, 2029, will be...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded Brandeis University a $846,469 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The goal of this 2-year project is to elucidate how the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport) machinery is regulated and deployed in neurons. The research aims to develop new visualization and manipulation tools to study ESCRT dynamics in...
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...