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This is a grant funding announcement (PAR-25-279) from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health seeking research proposals for developing new approaches to measure brain changes across extended time periods. The grant opportunity supports multidisciplinary research to study brain activity, connectivity, genomics, and neurodevelopment across the human lifespan, including both healthy participants and clinical populations, as well as animal research. The funding aims to advance technological and conceptual innovations for improving longitudinal measurements of neuroanatomical and functional changes at various levels, from genetics to neural population patterns.

The opportunity is available to a wide range of applicants including higher education institutions, government entities, tribal organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses. It falls under multiple federal grant programs including Child Health and Human Development Research (93.865), Technological Innovations for Human Health (93.286), Cancer Biology Research (93.396), and Aging Research (93.866). The research objectives encompass understanding brain development and aging, including neurodevelopmental origins of later health conditions, with emphasis on developing better methods for predicting outcomes at later ages.