Neuroscience grants

Career stage: Postdoc

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Recent doctoral degree recipients must follow the current NSF 26-504 fellowship, host-institution and submission requirements.

Career stage: Undergraduate · Master’s · PhD · Postdoc

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Covers: Doctoral support up to 60 months; postdoctoral support up to 36 months. CONICET and the company each fund half the base stipend; company supplements allowed. Exclusive research dedication with specified teaching exceptions; no employment relationship or pension contributions.

Doctoral applicants: graduates or at most three remaining undergraduate subjects, completed before starting; prior doctoral fellowship recipients excluded. Postdoctoral applicants: doctorate defended or final thesis deposited at application, defended before starting; prior CONICET postdoctoral fellowship recipients excluded. Approved supervisors and company co-funding required.

Career stage: Master’s

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Covers: Advertised stipend: BRL 3,270.

Completed relevant health or biological-science degree; full-time commitment; English scientific reading; FAPESP master’s eligibility. Degree completion and enrolment in a São Paulo academic master’s programme must be evidenced when accepting funding.

Career stage: Not specified

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Covers: Pays speaker travel and accommodation, excluding honoraria, dinners and promotional materials. Total regional ceilings: Africa and US/Canada USD 3,000; Latin America USD 4,500; Asia-Pacific and Pan-Europe USD 5,000.

Any organiser of a qualifying smaller neuroscience event may apply; IBRO membership is unnecessary. Recipients of IBRO Equitable Meeting Awards cannot receive this support in the same year.

Career stage: Not specified

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Covers: Regional ceilings: Africa USD 5,000; Asia-Pacific USD 2,000; Latin America USD 4,000. Covers venue, travel, accommodation, materials and hybrid technology. Administration is capped at 10%; salaries, honoraria and equipment purchases are excluded.

Groups of scientists or organisations planning a new neuroscience society or network need an actionable sustainability plan and at least one supporting letter from a neuroscience leader or institution.

Career stage: PhD · Postdoc · Early independent researcher · Mid-career researcher · Established researcher

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Covers: AUD 50,000 per award supports a 12-month proof-of-concept project; the three-award pool is not the amount per applicant.

The lead investigator submits through, or with approval from, the host. Cross-disciplinary teams are encouraged.

Career stage: PhD · Postdoc

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Covers: USD 255,000 over three years: USD 79,000 annual salary plus USD 6,000 annual research allowance. No institutional overhead; the host is expected to cover its health/fringe costs. The allowance cannot pay visa costs. Commercial patent/IP agreements are restricted; standard reagent MTAs are exempt.

Apply within five years of the latest PhD, MD or DVM (degree on or after October 1, 2021); candidates may apply before completion but need the degree by August 1, 2027. Start the proposed lab between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2027. A different thesis/postdoc lab and supervisor acceptance are required. HHMI Investigator laboratories are ineligible this cycle. Only one concurrent LSRF awardee per laboratory, including co-mentor laboratories. No concurrent postdoctoral fellowship; valid work authorization must cover the award.

Career stage: Postdoc · Early independent researcher · Mid-career researcher · Established researcher

Institution applies

Covers: Up to USD 900,000 over three consecutive years, including a maximum 15% overhead. Funding depends on the justified project budget.

MD, PhD or equivalent researchers at eligible nonprofit medical schools, universities or research organisations in the US or abroad, subject to the stated sanctions exclusions. Postdocs may submit an LOI if their institution will appoint them as a research/staff scientist or research professor if funded.

Career stage: Postdoc · Early independent researcher · Mid-career researcher

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Covers: Up to AUD 50,000, paid through an organisation, covers approved activity delivery and participation costs. Salaries, unrelated research costs and institutional overheads are excluded.

Confirmed or well-developed partner support and a host support letter are mandatory.

Career stage: Not specified

Institution applies

Eligible applicants include higher-education institutions, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, governments, tribal organizations, and eligible foreign organizations. The NOFO does not allow foreign subawards or subcontracts.

Career stage: Not specified

Institution applies

Eligible applicants include public and private higher-education institutions, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and eligible state, local, tribal, and federal government entities. Non-U.S. organizations are not eligible to apply; the full NIH notice governs foreign components and collaborations.

Career stage: Not specified

Institution applies

Eligible collaborative teams must follow the current NSF 24-569 PI, organization and submission requirements.

Career stage: Early independent researcher

Institution applies

Investigators at eligible U.S. non-R1 institutions must satisfy the current NSF 24-590 PI and institutional requirements.

Career stage: PhD · Postdoc

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Covers: Tax-free scholarship; amount is not stated. Set for twelve months at a time and paid every six months, with a maximum of two years within four years after the doctorate.

For incoming foreign researchers living outside Sweden who intend a temporary postdoctoral stay. Residents of Sweden and people who completed any academic education at KI or another Swedish institution are ineligible. A doctorate or equivalent must be completed before the intended start; candidates finishing their doctorate may apply. Scholarships cover at most two years within four years of the doctorate. Extensive circuit/systems neuroscience experience, quantitative methods, statistics, programming and at least one first-author paper are required.

Career stage: Not specified

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Covers: USD 300,000 over three years (USD 100,000 annually). Research expenses are supported; indirect costs and combined PI/co-PI salary each have a separate 10% total-award cap. Trainee and other research-staff salary has no such cap.

Independent investigators at US nonprofit research institutions with at least three years in tenured or tenure-track faculty roles (by September 2023); every co-PI must qualify. Research-track, adjunct, visiting and instructor titles are excluded. Institutions without professorial titles need a senior official’s independence confirmation. After two unsuccessful consecutive applications, wait one year. Applicants cannot apply to both McKnight schemes in one cycle or repeat the same award; earlier recipients of another scheme must finish that funding first.

Career stage: Not specified

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Covers: Up to USD 1,250 for outreach activities; excludes overheads and speaker salaries or honoraria. Paid 80% before the event and 20% after reporting.

Organisers of brain-awareness activities taking place during 2027 outside Europe.

Career stage: Master’s · PhD · Postdoc

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Covers: Up to EUR 4,000 for travel and housing.

Master’s and PhD neuroscience students and postdocs within five years of starting their postdoc, currently based in Europe. FENS or eligible Pan-Europe IBRO membership, host acceptance and a home-laboratory recommendation are required. Insurance, equipment, groceries and personal expenses are excluded.

Career stage: Not specified

Institution applies

Covers: Up to USD 275,000 in direct costs over two years; no more than USD 200,000 in one year. Clinical trials are excluded.

Eligible higher-education, nonprofit, for-profit and other organisations listed in the NOFO, including non-US organisations, apply through their institution. Required institutional registrations and the NOFO-specific research conditions apply.

Career stage: Not specified

Institution applies

Covers: Up to USD 275,000 in direct project costs over two years; no more than USD 200,000 in a single year. R21 exploratory/developmental research.

Eligible higher-education, nonprofit, for-profit and other organisations listed in the NOFO, including non-US organisations, apply through their institution. Required institutional registrations and the NOFO-specific research conditions apply.

Career stage: Postdoc

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Covers: Individual awards of CAD 40,000–50,000; duration is not specified on the call.

MD and/or PhD from 2023 onward, subject to documented interruption or clinical-training exceptions; obtain a Neuro supervisor’s agreement and support letter plus two sponsor assessments. Award-specific conditions apply.