Funder: International Brain Research Organization
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Regional maximums of USD 2,000–4,000 for projects lasting up to one year
Summary: Supports early-career principal investigators in maintaining scientific project continuity around pregnancy, parental leave, or adoption.
Key Information: Applicants must be within seven years of becoming a principal investigator and meet qualifying parenthood circumstances.
Description
IBRO Parenthood Grants are an international career-development program run by the International Brain Research Organization. The grants support early-career researchers whose pregnancy, parental leave, or adoption leave coincides with a demanding stage of their scientific careers. The program aims to counter disadvantages associated with research interruptions, including a perceived reduction in competitiveness in producing results, publishing papers, and obtaining grants.
Funding helps maintain progress in scientific projects and laboratories while researchers balance personal circumstances with their work. Supported expenses include reagents, facility costs, outsourced experiments or data acquisition, and transportation of non-commercial samples or reagents. Grants can also support conference travel and child-care expenses, as well as grant-writing or consultation services.
