Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan - Exploratory Grants
Funds exploratory brain and nervous system disorder research that pairs a US organisation with a partner in a low- or middle-income country.
Genetics, environments and disease patterns in low- and middle-income countries surface things a US-only study never sees. The Fogarty International Center, working with NINDS, NIMH, NIA, NIEHS, NICHD, NEI, NIDCD and NCCIH, funds research that puts that difference to work on brain and nervous system disease.
The scope is the full spectrum of neuro-health across the lifespan: neurological, neuromu…
Exploratory research on brain and nervous system disorders across the lifespan — neurological, neuromuscular, sensory, neuropsychiatric, neuroinfectious, cognitive, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disease — through basic, clinical, translational or implementation approaches, requiring at least one United States organisation and one partner organisation in a low- or middle-income country as defined by the World Bank.
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