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BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools and New Approaches for Neuroscience Research

Funds building new tools to record, image or control brain cells and circuits, from first sketches to lab-ready instruments.

Understanding the brain depends on tools that do not exist yet. This notice funds building them.

The BRAIN Initiative is soliciting applications to develop novel tools and approaches that interrogate cell-specific and circuit-specific processes in the central nervous system, consolidating three previously separate BRAIN Initiative tool-development programmes into one.

Two broad directions are na

HardwareNeurotech

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

Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: www.grants.gov