The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the sprawling federal agency that funds research, including brain research. The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies®) Initiative is an NIH program aimed at “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” through investment in technologies that should ultimately allow neuroscientists to visualize how individual brain cells and complex neural networks interact in time and space…
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NIH recently issued a BRAIN Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA in NIH-speak) seeking “to stimulate the participation of individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; individuals with disabilities; and women…”
Noggin is committed to inclusion of diverse voices and perspectives. Our efforts to bring together “near peers,” including undergraduates in science and art, to collaborate with graduate students and postdocs in creating novel, innovative, multidisciplinary methods of explaining complex ideas in neuroscience, exposes these students to scientists and artists at various stages of their careers.
For the many academic priority K-12 students we visit who may not know a working scientist, or a college student studying psychology, or art, or who have families without the resources to enroll them in costly after school or summer enrichment programs, this experience can be life-changing, and spark an enduring interest in learning about behavior and the brain.
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Here are the details on the NIH/NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke) funding opportunity, which is directed at postdoctoral researchers who are from “underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women…”
Announcing the BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00)
The NINDS, with other NIH Institutes and Centers participating in the BRAIN Initiative, intends to publish “BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00).” The BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 award is intended for individuals from diverse backgrounds (including nationally underrepresented groups) who are working in research areas supported by the BRAIN Initiative, who have no more than five years of postdoctoral research experience, and who require at least 12 months of mentored research training and career development (K99 phase) before transitioning to the independent research (R00) phase of the program.
Eligible individuals for this program will be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who fall in one of the categories defined in the Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity. Women have been shown to be underrepresented in doctorate-granting research institutions at senior faculty levels in most biomedical-relevant disciplines by the National Science Foundation and for the purposes of this funding opportunity announcement would be considered as eligible candidates for this diversity program. All research areas within the BRAIN Initiative are encouraged (including but not limited to engineering, computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, chemistry and neuroethics).
The success of this program depends in part on receiving applications! Please spread the word about this funding opportunity and encourage all eligible to apply. In particular, this FOA seeks to stimulate the participation of individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; individuals with disabilities; and women in the BRAIN Initiative. Please direct all inquiries to: Michelle Jones-London, PhD National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) jonesmiche@ninds.nih.gov.
Read more in NOT-NS-18-041.
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