Open Call – Brain and Behavior Research Foundation – BBRF Young Investigator Grant

Mar 7, 2022 | Awards & Funding, Research

To: All Divisional Faculty and Researchers
From: Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Subject: Funding Opportunity

The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF). 

UCSC Contact: Samantha Forde | forde@ucsc.edu
Funder: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
Program2022 BBRF Young Investigator Grant
Funding: up to $70,000 for 2 years
Deadline: March 22, 2022, no later than 08:59 p.m. PST

Overview

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the largest non-government, donor-supported organization that distributes funds for psychiatric brain and behavior disorder research.

The Foundation’s BBRF Young Investigator Grant program enables promising investigators to either extend their research fellowship training, or to begin careers as independent research faculty. The program is intended to facilitate innovative research opportunities and supports basic, as well as translational and/or clinical investigators. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders such as: schizophrenia; bipolar; mood and anxiety disorders or early onset brain and behavior disorders. Please refer to the grant guidelines on the foundation website for more information about the program

Click here to meet 2021 BBRF Young Investigators.

 Funding

  • Up to $70,000 (over 2 years)
  • Funding is for one or two years and is up to $35,000 per year.
  • The Foundation does not pay institutional overhead on the BBRF Young Investigator Grant Program.

Eligibility

  • BBRF welcomes diversity in gender, race, ethnicity, and culture of the applicant, and geographic location for their proposed work.
  • Applicants must have a doctoral level degree and already be employed in research training or a faculty research position. The YI Grant is intended to support advanced post-doctoral fellows, instructors and assistant professors (or equivalent).
  • Applicants must have an on-site mentor or senior collaborator who is an established investigator in areas relevant to psychiatric disorders.
  • You may only apply twice for your first BBRF Young Investigator Grant.
  • If you have previously received a BBRF Young Investigator Grant, you may only apply once more for a second BBRF Young Investigator Grant (ie., you may only be awarded a total of two BBRF Young Investigator Grants.
  • If you are an assistant professor who is currently or has been a principal investigator on an NIH R01 Grant (or equivalent national/international; non-mentored award), you are now ineligible to apply for a BBRF Young Investigator Grant.
  • Only one principal investigator is allowed per application.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)

Special Instruction

Please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. Please let Foundation Relations (cfr@ucsc.edu) know if you are interested in applying. For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu.


The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations and corporations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits.

For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website.  FR Calls for Funding

If you have any questions or comments, please contact cfr@ucsc.edu