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Approximately 90% of the overall budget of NINDS is used to fund extramural research. This section of the website describes the current NINDS funding strategy, the mechanisms NINDS uses to support extramural research, its areas of research interest and its policies.

• Funding Strategy
  Each year, NINDS establishes a set of funding plans based on the appropriations received from Congress... [more]
  
  
• Funding Opportunities
  Unsolicited, investigator-initiated applications in areas of research interest are accepted on standard Receipt Deadlines. Applicant forms are available online.
• In addition, NINDS also periodically solicits applications and proposals on specific topics. A list of current solicitations (RFAs, PAs, Notices and RFPs) is found in this section... [more]
  
  
• Grant Mechanisms (including research grants and cooperative agreements)
  • A description of the mechanisms NINDS uses to support research... [more]
  • Helpful information regarding Grants Policies... [more]
  • Information on the status of a grantee or applicant's grant/application: NIH eRA Commons allows a Principal Investigator to review the current status of all their grant applications and review detailed information associated with the grant... [more]
  • Small Business Grant Program at NIH... [more]
  • Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about NINDS Funding... [more]
    
    
• Contract Mechanisms
  Research and development contracts are awarded for specific scientific inquiry directed towards particular areas identified as needs by the Government. The Contracts Management Branch provides more information on this topic... [more]
  
  
• Clinical Research
  Research that involves human subjects is governed by a number of additional policy and oversight requirements. NINDS requires the clinical research it funds to meet high standards of scientific rigor in study design and execution as well as vigilance in the protection of human subjects... [more]
  

Topics of Special Interest

• Cognitive and Emotional Health Project (CEHP)
  Searchable database of cognitive and emotion function in adults
• Counterterrorism and Neuroscience Research
• Neural Prosthesis Program
• NINDS Grants Information for Non-U.S. Scientists and U.S. Scientists at Foreign Institutions
• Stem Cells
• Translational Research
• NIH Neuroscience Blueprint

Additional Information

• How to Write a Research Project Grant
• NIH Grant Applications and Other Forms
• Application Deadlines
• Funded Grants/CRISP
• National Advisory Council
• NINDS Notes - Summaries of recent program announcements and clinical trials
• Scientific Review Committees

Last updated August 13, 2008