Schizophrenia Research Forum: Search Grants

Program:	Pew Latin American Fellows: Program in the Biomedical Sciences
Sponsor(s):	Pew Charitable Trusts
Details:	This program provides support for young scientists from Latin America for post-doctoral training in the United States. An award of $60,000 will be provided as a salary stipend for the fellow during the period of training (2 years) and will be administered by the sponsoring U.S. institution. The sponsoring institution is expected to supplement the stipend with at least $5,000 a year and provide medical benefits for the fellow. Following the two year fellowship, the Program will issue an additional $35,000 award to the sponsoring institution to purchase equipment and supplies for the fellow to establish a laboratory in his or her home country.
Deadline(s):	October 1



Program:	National Cooperative Drug Discovery and Development Groups (NCDDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U01/U19)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Details:	The purpose of the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group (NCDDG) Program is to create multidisciplinary research groups or partnerships for the discovery of pharmacological agents to treat and to study mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction. The objectives of this program are to accelerate innovative drug discovery, the development of pharmacologic tools for basic and clinical research on mental disorders, or drug or alcohol addiction, and the development and validation of models for evaluating novel therapeutics for mental disorders. Partnerships between academia and industry are strongly encouraged. In addition, this FOA runs in parallel with FOAs of similar scientific intent for small businesses, PA-08-142 and PA-06-028 using the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR [R43/R44]) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR [R41/R42]) grant mechanisms.
Deadline(s):	Letters of Intent Receipt Dates: September 3, 2008; January 24, 2009; August 17, 2009; Jan 24, 2010; Aug 17, 2010; Jan 24, 2011; May 24, 2011 Application Receipt Dates: October 3, 2008; February 24, 2009; September 17, 2009; Feb 24, 2010; Sep 17, 2010; Feb 24, 2011; June 24, 2011



Program:	Sloan Research Fellowships
Sponsor(s):	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Details:	Flexible 2-year funding of $50,000 for early-career researchers. Must be nominated by department head or other senior researcher.
Deadline(s):	Nominations due September 15.



Program:	Epigenomic Modifications in Neurodevelopment (R01, R21)
Sponsor(s):	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Details:	This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health, solicits research grant applications that characterize epigenetic events involved in neurodevelopmental processes or propose to identify epigenome-wide marks associated with early environmental influences and vulnerability to mental disorders. Studies that provide cross-species analysis and/or studies that address heterogeneity of epigenetic marks across tissue types, including cell specificity in the brain across development are of particular interest. See also FOA of identical scientific scope, RFA-MH-11-031, that solicits applications utilizing the Exploratory/Developmental (R21) award mechanism.
Deadline(s):	Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): September 20, 2010 Application Due Date(s): October 20, 2010



Program:	2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Details:	The NIH Director’s New Innovator (DP2) Award program was created in 2007 to support a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research. The New Innovator Awards complement ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund early stage investigators through R01 grants, which continue to be the major sources of NIH support for early stage investigators.
Deadline(s):	September 20, 2010



Program:	2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Details:	The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award program complements NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to addressing major biomedical or behavioral challenges. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions from those already being pursued in the investigator’s laboratory or elsewhere. Awardees must commit the major portion (at least 51%) of their research effort to activities supported by the Pioneer Award.
Deadline(s):	September 13, 2010



Program:	Development of Assays for High-Throughput screening for use in Probe and Pre-therapeutic Discovery (R01)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Institute on Aging National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Details:	This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose the development of assays for high throughput screening (HTS) relevant to processes and diseases specific to its mission with the intent of using them to screen for small molecule compounds that show desired properties as probes for use in advancing knowledge about the relevant target, identifying new targets, or serving as pre-therapeutic leads. The NIH launched a Molecular Libraries and Imaging initiative as part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research to establish a network of HTS screening centers which provide access to a large compound library, robotics to carry out the assays, and informatics to interpret the results (http://mli.nih.gov/mli/). This FOA seeks to establish a stream of scientifically and technologically outstanding assays for screening by these and other academic centers.



Program:	Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (T32)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institute on Aging National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Details:	The Jointly Sponsored NIH Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences supports broad and fundamental, early-stage graduate research training in the neurosciences via institutional NRSA research training grants (T32) at domestic institutions of higher education. Trainees are supported during years 1 and 2 of their graduate research training when they are typically not committed to a dissertation laboratory. The primary objective is to prepare qualified individuals for careers in neuroscience that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation.
Deadline(s):	Letters of Intent: April 25, 2010; Application: May 25, 2010



Program:	International Neuroscience Fellowship (F05)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institute on Aging National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Details:	The goal of the International Neuroscience Fellowship (INF) is to advance the training of qualified foreign neuroscientists and clinicians at the early or mid-career level, by enhancing their basic, translational or clinical research skills in a research setting in the United States (U.S.). This program aims to strengthen the intellectual capital of neuroscience research in international institutions. Awardees are expected to pursue future independent and productive careers, which stimulate research in the neurosciences on a global scale.
Deadline(s):	Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): July 16, 2010, 2011, 2012; Application Due Date(s): August 16, 2010, 2011, 2012



Program:	Seeding National Mentoring Networks to Enhance Diversity of the Mental Health Research Workforce (U24)
Sponsor(s):	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Details:	This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, solicits Resource-Related Research Projects-Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conceptualize, plan and pilot an innovative prototype of a national infrastructure to mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds who are conducting research relevant to the mission of the NIMH. In response to recommendations from the 2008 National Advisory Mental Health Council Workgroup on Research Training, the NIMH is encouraging creation of innovative national mentoring networks in scientific domains pertinent to the NIMH mission. It is expected that these networks will enhance the professional development of the participating individuals, sustain their career trajectory through research independence, and lead to scientific advances that will help transform the understanding and treatment of mental illness and HIV/AIDS.
Deadline(s):	Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): December 30, 2009; August 30, 2010; Application Receipt Date(s): January 29, 2010; September 29, 2010