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Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) is a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that funds team-based, technology-enabled neuroscience research to understand how behavior emerges from brain circuit activity. The program supports discovery of general principles underlying cognition, behavior, and the brain's structural organization and dynamic functions.
Projects must advance the field toward a comprehensive understanding of how the healthy brain works through collaborative, multi-institutional approaches. Eligible applicants include universities, nonprofits, and state and local governments. Award amounts vary by project scope.
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Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Archived funding opportunity This document has been archived.
NSF's implementation of the revised 2 CFR NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website . These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.
Important information for proposers All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements.
Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.
Updates to NSF Research Security Policies On July 10, 2025, NSF issued an Important Notice providing updates to the agency's research security policies, including a research security training requirement, Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program annual certification requirement, prohibition on Confucius institutes and an updated FFDR reporting and submission timeline.
Technology-enabled, Team-based Neuroscience Understanding how behavior emerges from the dynamic patterns of electrical and chemical activity of brain circuits is universally recognized as one of the great, unsolved mysteries of science. Advances in recent decades have elucidated how individual elements of the nervous system and brain relate to specific behaviors and cognitive processes.
However, there remains much to discover to attain a comprehensive understanding of how the healthy brain functions, specifically, the general principles underlying how cognition and behavior relate to the brains structural organization and dynamic activities, how the brain interacts with its environment, and how brains maintain their functionality over time.
Achieving an understanding of brain structure and function that spans levels of organization, spatial and temporal scales, and the diversity of species requires an international, transdisciplinary collaborative effort to not only integrate discipline-specific ideas and approaches but also extend them to stimulate new discoveries, and innovative concepts, theories, and methodologies.
The objective of this phase of the NeuroNex Program is the establishment of distributed, international research networks that build on existing global investments in neurotechnologies to address overarching questions in neuroscience.
The creation of such global research networks of excellence will foster international cooperation by seeding close interactions between a wide array of organizations across the world, as well as creating links and articulating alliances between multiple recently launched international brain projects. The potential transformative advances in neuroscience stemming from this activity will have profound scientific and societal impacts.
The goal of this solicitation is to support collaborative networks (approximately 15 to 20 investigators in each network) comprised of international teams of disciplinarily diverse experimentalists, theorists, and research resource (including technology and cyberinfrastructure) developers working on a common foundational question in neuroscience.
It is anticipated that these international networks will enable experimentation, analysis, and discovery in neuroscience at scales much larger than currently possible.
This interdisciplinary, international program is one element of NSFs broader effort directed at Understanding the Brain, a multi-year activity that includes NSFs participation in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (http://www. nsf. gov/brain/) and the phased approach to develop a research infrastructure for neuroscience as outlined in the Dear Colleague Letter NSF16-047.
The need for a program that helps neuroscientists collect, standardize, manage, and analyze the large amounts of data that result from research attempting to understand how the brain functions has been recognized by stakeholders in the scientific community and by the U.S. Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA) of 2017.
The NSF and international partner agencies envision a connected portfolio of transformative, integrative projects that leverage existing global investments in neurotechnologies and create synergistic links across domestic and international investigators and communities, yielding novel ways of tackling the challenges of understanding the brain in action and in context.
Questions concerning a particular project’s focus, direction, and relevance to a participating funding organization should be addressed to: Canadian Institutes for Health Research For general inquiries, please contact: Melody Sajedi, Advisor, Program Design and Delivery, telephone: 613-960-9475, email: melody. sajedi@cihr-irsc. gc.
ca Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Dr. Anna Christa, telephone: +49 228 885 2632, email: anna. christa@dfg. de Fonds de Recherche du Québec For general inquiries and additional information about this program and the FRQ, please contact: Sylvain Charbonneau, Program Director, telephone: 514-873-0321, email: sylvain.
charbonneau@frq. gouv. qc.
ca Richard Brière, Senior Analyst, telephone: 514-873-0321, email: richard. briere@frq. gouv.
qc. ca Medical Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation) For general inquiries and additional information about this program and the UKRI-MRC, please contact: Charlotte Inchley, Programme Manager – Neurosciences and Mental Health, UKRI-MRC, telephone: +44 (0)1793 41 6305, email: charlotte. inchley@mrc.
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