See Notices of Special Interest associated with this funding opportunity. See Section III. Additional Information on Eligibility. Awards will provide support for the early and conceptual stages of projects. These studies often assess the feasibility of a novel avenue of investigation and involve considerable risk, but have the potential to bring about breakthroughs in the understanding of important areas of neuroscience, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, or models, of high value to the neuroscience community.
While this funding opportunity also accepts clinical trials, only applications proposing mechanistic clinical trials or studies studying pathophysiology or mechanism of action of an intervention, but not safety or efficacy or basic experimental studies with humans BESH will be supported. For information on NIH clinical trial definitions and the types of clinical trials that are within scope of this funding opportunity announcement refer to the NIH Definition of a Clinical Trial page and the Funding Opportunity Description , below, respectively.
All applications are due by PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on the listed date s. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date. Conformance to all requirements both in the Application Guide and the FOA is required and strictly enforced.
Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
There are several options available to submit your application through Grants. You must use one of these submission options to access the application forms for this opportunity. Awards will provide support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects.
