Forecast for BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This grant will fund projects developing scalable technologies for mapping brain connectivity across species, as part of the BRAIN CONNECTS network, with applications opening in September 2025.
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: June 2, 2025 (First estimated application deadline) | October 4, 2027 (Current application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $10 million estimated total program funding; no cost sharing or matching required
Summary: Supports specialized projects developing scalable technologies and data pipelines for comprehensive, brain-wide connectivity mapping.
Key Information: Clinical trials are not allowed; funded projects will join the coordinated BRAIN CONNECTS Network.
Description
The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative supports specialized projects developing current or emerging technologies for comprehensive atlases of brain connectivity. Part of BRAIN Connectivity Across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS), this opportunity emphasizes human, non-human primate, and mouse brains. Its goal is to enable faster, more precise, and more cost-effective generation and interpretation of brain-wide wiring diagrams.
Projects may address data collection, reconstruction, analysis, integration, dissemination, or interpretation. Technology development can span tissue processing, imaging, alignment, segmentation, annotation, error correction, and integration into the broader neuroscience data environment. The program seeks innovative approaches to understanding brain circuit function and behavior, laying the scientific foundation for future neural circuit-based approaches to preventing and treating brain disorders.
