Funding Opportunities

The Carney Institute for Brain Science provides funds to support summer undergraduate research experiences, graduate student training and postdoctoral training. Additionally, the Carney Institute supports interdisciplinary research through the New Frontiers awards, and highly creative research projects through the Innovation fund.

Carney Institute Innovation Awards

Applications closed. Next call expected in Spring 2019.

The purpose of the Carney Institute Innovation Awards is to help brain scientists launch new, innovative research projects with great potential that are too risky and early stage for NIH or other external funding sources. The Carney Institute will make significant investments of up to $100K for one year, renewable for a second year on a competitive basis, to support projects with potential for high scientific impact and potential to attract future external funding.

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Graduate Awards in Brain Science

The deadline for applications is Monday, April 1, 2019, at 12 p.m. EST.

The Carney Institute for Brain Science invites applications for Graduate Awards in Brain Science. These awards recognize outstanding and productive mid- to late-stage Ph.D. candidates conducting brain science-related research in a Brown graduate program. Awards cover full costs for two academic semesters and one summer. Awards will also provide additional support for meeting travel, workshop registration, or research costs.

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Center for Vision Research Opportunities

Applications for these funds will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning March 1, 2019

The Center for Vision Research (CVR), part of the Carney Institute for Brain Science, has funds to facilitate innovative vision research through pilot grants and temporary support of postdoctoral fellows. Funds are also available to bring speakers to campus and to host workshops.

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Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRA)

Applications closed. Annual deadline is February 5 at 5 p.m.

The Carney Institute for Brain Science offers summer undergraduate research experiences in coordination with the Brown University Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) program. Each summer, Carney supports undergraduate summer research awards as funding permits. Applications that are not awarded a Carney Institute-specific UTRA will still be considered for funding through the University-wide pool of UTRA funding.

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Postdoctoral T32 Training Program in Recovery and Restoration of CNS Health and Function

Applications closed

The goal of this exciting multidisciplinary, multi-institutional training program, based at Massachusetts General Hospital and the School of Engineering and the Carney Institute for Brain Science, is to enhance recovery from disabling brain injuries by filling a pressing need for clinician-scientists and neuroengineers trained to leverage the computational neurosciences and to develop and test device-based and other interventions for patients.

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COBRE Center for Nervous System Function - Pilot Project Applications

Applications closed

The Carney Institute for Brain Science COBRE Center for Nervous System Function aims to increase the quantity and quality of research on the nervous system in Rhode Island. One means of attaining this goal concerns identifying and nurturing talented young investigators and enabling established investigators to create a new research line. We welcome project submissions that explore the neural basis of attention, decision-making, learning, memory, or other cognitive functions.

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Rhode Island Neuroscience New Frontiers Awards

Applications closed

The Rhode Island Neuroscience Leadership Committee (RINLC), in partnership with the Carney Institute for Brain Science, the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute and the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island, announced a call for proposals for a special round of New Frontiers Awards. These awards provide up to $40,000 each to support brain science projects involving scientists from any of the institutions represented on the RINLC: Brown University, University of Rhode Island, Lifespan Hospitals, Care New England Hospitals and the Providence VA Medical Center.

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2018 Translational Neuroscience and Neural Engineering Summer Workshop

Applications closed

The Carney Institute for Brain Science and Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering invite Brown Ph.D. students to apply to attend the EPFL/ETH-Wyss-Brown Neuroengineering Summer Workshop being held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, on June 4-9, 2018. The main theme of the workshop is "Bridging the Gap: From Neuroscience to Translation." It will be comprised of lectures and tutorials directed at Ph.D. students in neuroscience, engineering and related fields. Topics will reflect cutting-edge research relevant to medicine and neuro-prostheses, including theoretical work on neural computation, applied work on micro-electronics and data-scientific methods in computational psychiatry.

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