Neurotech grants
Explore grants for neurotech companies. This directory includes funding for brain-computer interfaces, neural implants and prosthetics, neuroimaging, neuroscience research and mental health technology, from health and research agencies, brain initiatives and foundations.
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BRAIN Initiative: Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording and Modulation Technologies in the Human CNS
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a novel recording or modulation technology for the human central nervous system from proof of concept up to readiness for first-in-human studies.
Translational Neural Devices
NIH · United States
Funds a therapeutic or diagnostic device for the nervous system through prototyping, safety testing, regulatory clearance and a first small clinical study.
Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording/Modulation Technologies in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds preclinical testing for novel neural recording and modulation technologies before clinical transition.
BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain
NIH · United States
Funds new genetic or non-genetic tools that deliver genes, proteins or chemicals to specific brain cells or circuits, with validation built in.
Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain
BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds new methods to study brain cells and circuits with tools for deeper neural research.
BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds exploratory human studies that record and stimulate neurons directly, using brain access that invasive procedures already create.
Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System
NIH · United States
Funds optimizing an already-validated hit compound into an in vivo chemical probe for a novel brain target.
NIMHD Parent SBIR Grant
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds United States small businesses developing health-disparities technologies through NIH SBIR grants.
NIMHD Parent STTR Grant
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds United States small businesses partnering with nonprofit research institutions on health-disparities technologies.
New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new or newly applied ways to measure brain activity, connectivity or genomics across the lifespan, to predict what happens later.
New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds highly novel approaches to measuring brain activity, connectivity or genomics repeatedly across the lifespan, on an exploratory footing.
BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development
NIH · United States
Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.
BRAIN Initiative: Reagent Resources for Brain Cell Type-Specific Access to Broaden Distribution of Enabling Technologies for Neuroscience
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a minority-serving or IDeA-eligible institution to build a facility that makes and ships brain cell-targeting reagents to neuroscience labs.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's largest computing awards — up to $15 million over seven years for a research agenda that looks a decade ahead.
Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Biologic-based Drug Discovery and Development for Disorders of the Nervous System
NIH · United States
Funds a biologic for a nervous system disorder from lead optimisation to phase I, with NIH-paid manufacturing and tox work — and the applicant keeps the IP.
CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds white papers under a standard Broad Agency Announcement inside the Air Force's CHEERS human-performance research strategy.
BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies
NIH · United States
Funds technology anywhere in the connectomics pipeline — collection, reconstruction, analysis, dissemination — to make brain wiring diagrams faster and cheaper.
Early Stage Testing of Pharmacologic or Neuromodulatory Device-based Interventions for the Treatment of Mental Disorders (R33)
NIH · United States
Funds early-stage testing of a novel-mechanism drug or a device for mental disorders, designed to show a dose-dependent effect on the target.
Early Stage Testing of Pharmacologic or Neuromodulatory Device-based Interventions for the Treatment of Mental Disorders (R61/R33)
NIH · United States
Funds a feasibility phase then a testing phase for a novel-mechanism drug or a device for mental disorders, with milestones between them.
First in Human and Early Stage Clinical Trials of Novel Investigational Drugs or Neuromodulatory Device-based Interventions for Psychiatric Disorders
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the first human trials of a novel-mechanism psychiatric drug or a novel neuromodulatory device, with milestones gating each step.
Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Development and Validation of Model Systems to Facilitate Neurotherapeutic Discovery
NIH · United States
Funds building animal and tissue models that behave enough like a real neurological disease to test drugs against.
Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Assay Development and Neurotherapeutic Agent Identification
NIH · United States
Funds building the assays and running the screens that find drug candidates for neurological disease — the on-ramp to NIH's Blueprint network.
Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Neurotherapeutic Agent Characterization and In vivo Efficacy Studies
NIH · United States
Funds the pharmacology and animal efficacy work that shows a neurological drug candidate is worth developing further.