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
Program: 2023 BBRF Young Investigator Grant
Funding: up to $70,000 for 2 years
Deadline: March 23, 2023, no later than 08:59 p.m. PST
Overview
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation funds 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 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 2022 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
- 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.
- 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.
- You may only apply twice for your first BBRF Young Investigator Grant.
- Only one principal investigator is allowed per application.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)
Special Instructions
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 call sent: March 6, 2023
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