BRAIN Initiative Career Development & Training

BRAIN Initiative Career Development & Training is the NIH BRAIN Initiative's route for supporting people entering BRAIN-relevant neuroscience. It includes K99/R00 career transition awards, F32 and F31 fellowships, K01 mentored development awards, and administrative diversity supplements tied to active BRAIN grants. The program is built for individual researchers rather than companies. The institutional home is U.S.-based, and the mechanisms are aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scientists. The K99/R00 route is reserved for researchers from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds with fewer than five years of postdoctoral experience, while diversity supplements can support trainees from high school through the postdoctoral stage. The best fit is a candidate with a clear BRAIN-relevant research direction and an eligible host institution already prepared to sponsor the award. The diversity supplements are add-ons to existing BRAIN grants, so applicants need that parent funding in place, and the career-stage mechanisms work best when the proposal shows a clean line from current training to the next scientific step.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.