NINDS Interdisciplinary Team Science Grant (RM1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Agency:
- National Institutes of Health
A team science approach expands our ability to pursue challenging problems in neuroscience research in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, rigorous, and mechanistic manner. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages ambitious interdisciplinary team efforts to tackle basic, translational, and clinical research challenges within the mission of NINDS.
This FOA is designed to support a team of experts that seek to cross technical and conceptual boundaries through interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve a common goal. The research program should require a synergistic and integrated team-based approach to reach its goal (i.e., why the proposed research goal cannot be achieved through individual or parallel efforts). The research goal should be cohesive, well-defined, and sufficiently focused so that meaningful outcomes can be achieved within 5 years. Applications that propose extrapolations of a single line of research or propose parallel but independent advancement of different areas are not appropriate for this FOA.
The list below includes representative, but not exhaustive, examples of interdisciplinary opportunities:
- A goal that challenges existing paradigms, overcomes long-standing roadblocks to progress, and/or develops new synergies between different scientific fields
- Basic, translational, and/or clinical collaborations with a goal of reaching a significantly higher mechanistic understanding of nervous system function and/or dysfunction
- Challenges in understanding and targeting disease modifying therapies that require collaborations across basic, translational, and/or clinical disciplines
- Scientific efforts requiring integration of previously siloed and/or disparate areas of scientific or technical expertise
- A scientific question that requires the leverage of an innovative combination of tools and approaches
- Challenges that necessitate bridging across scales and disciplines
- Investigations across species (e.g., shared/generalizable and/or unique neural processes)
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
October 07, 2022
David Owens, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Telephone: 301-496-9248; Email: NINDSteamscience@nih.gov