Call for Applications: 2014 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation)

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

For MIT Postdocs - forwarded information:
 From the MIT Office of Foundation Relations

Below you will find information on a call for applications from the 
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD).

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

*NOTE:**The Office of Foundation Relations is pleased to provide 
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.**/Please 
also let us know if you apply, whether or not we assist you.  For more 
information, including a list of recently issued RFPs, please visit our 
website (/**http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/).*

*/NOTE: All proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored 
Programs [MIT] prior to submission./*

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*2014 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant*
*Deadline: February 19, 2014*
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*NOTE: Award does not include indirect costs--it will incur underrecovery*

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the largest non-government, 
donor-supported organization that distributes funds for psychiatric 
brain and behavior disorder research. The Foundation's NARSAD 
Young Investigator Grant program offers up to $30,000 a year for up to 
two (2) years to enable promising investigators to either extend their 
research fellowship training or to begin careers as independent research 
faculty.

The program is intended to facilitate innovative research opportunities 
and supports basic, as well as translational and/or clinical 
investigators, however, research must be relevant to our understanding, 
treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders such as 
schizophrenia, bipolar, mood and anxiety disorders, or early onset brain 
and behavior disorders.

As is well known, the Foundation is interested in supporting the full 
range of relevant neurobiological and psychobiological basic science. We 
also support clinical grants which can include careful studies using 
qualitative research approaches or research generating preliminary data 
to explore a new hypothesis generated by clinical experience or large 
sample studies.

The NARSAD Young Investigator Grant is not sufficient to support 
expensive large sample patient-based studies but it may be possible to 
attach a study to a clinical project already under way or for which 
other funding has become available. Some possibilities for preliminary 
clinical studies include:

 1. Support for an add-on study to identify a biomarker in the context
    of an ongoing clinical trial.
 2. Determining if a computer-based cognitive or other remediation
    enhances effectiveness of a cognitive agents.
 3. Proof of principle study in a few subjects to see if efficacy is
    detected with a new treatment.
 4. Testing a novel hypothesis within an already established data set.
 5. Research on productive work outcomes

These examples do not define the Foundation's specific goals, but 
illustrate feasibility of expensive clinical research in the context of 
the NARSAD Grants Program.

The Foundation is committed to spending all contributions for direct 
support of research. Operational expenses are generously underwritten by 
two family foundations. Administrative cost of review is small; 
reviewers are members of the Foundation's Scientific Council, whom 
volunteer their time to evaluate applications; therefore, *no feedback 
can be provided to applicants*.

*Grant Requirements*

 1. Applicants must have a doctoral level degree (e.g., M.D. with
    [minimum PGY-IV] training, Ph.D., Psy.D., Pharm.D., etc.) and
    already be employed in research training, or be in a faculty
    research position. The YI Grant is intended to support advanced
    post-doctoral fellows, instructors and assistant professors (or
    equivalent). Pre-doctoral students, first year post-doctoral
    fellows, faculty who've served and faculty serving as a P.I. on
    a NIH R01 grant are not eligible. Investigators at the rank of
    associate professor or equivalent are also not eligible (assistant
    professors who serve(d) as a P.I. on a NIH R01 or equiv. grant are
    now eligible for the II Grant;
 2. Applicants must have on-site mentor or senior collaborator who is an
    established investigator in areas relevant to psychiatric disorders.
    The mentor/sponsor role is usually extensive for fellowship
    extension (mentor), and more senior colleague/advisor (sponsor) for
    an applicant prepared to initiate independent science;
 3. Applicants may only apply twice for an initial YI Grant;
 4. Applications must be submitted by Tuesday, February 19, 2014, no
    later than 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time;
 5. Funding is for one or two years and is up to $30,000 per year. The
    Foundation does not pay institutional overhead on the NARSAD Young
    Investigator Grant Program;
 6. The Foundation allows considerable flexibility in the use of funds:
    equipment, stipends, etc., are all acceptable as long as the support
    is in the service of the NARSAD Grant research project;
 7. Applicants are eligible for a maximum of two Young Investigator
    Grants. Prior grantees at the advanced post-doctoral, instructor or
    assistant professor level can apply for a second grant. However,
    grants cannot overlap in time, only one application for a second YI
    Grant is permitted, and substantial productivity on the first grant
    must be documented and the applicant must show how a second grant
    will facilitate competition for a NIH R01 grant or equivalent. Only
    one principal investigator (P.I.) is allowed per application;
 8. Grant approval notifications will be mailed in August, 2014. It is
    the Foundation's policy to provide no feedback on applications,
    other than funding notification. Earliest grant start date is
    January 15, 2015.


Visit the NARSAD website for complete program information and 
application procedures: http://bbrfoundation.org/yi#apply.

______________________________
Nicholas Marmor
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
600 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>
617.324.7163

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