21st Century Cures Act: Regenerative Medicine Initiative

Objective

To provide support for initiatives funded under the 21st Century Cures Act to support the BRAIN Initiative’s aim of revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space. Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize,

Who Can Apply

• Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
• Other public institution/organization

The awardee will be a university, college, hospital, public agency, nonprofit research institution or for-profit organization that applies and receives a grant for support of research by a named principal investigator. To be eligible for funding, a grant application must be approved for scientific merit and program relevance by a scientific review group and a national advisory council.

Who Benefits

• Public nonprofit institution/organization
• Other public institution/organization

Any nonprofit or for-profit organization, company, or institution engaged in biomedical research.

Assistance Types

• Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements)

Program Contact

pharesda@nhlbi.nih.gov
301 827-7968