Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale: Innovative Teams Award - 2026

Description

We are excited to announce a Yale faculty award opportunity from the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. We seek to support the creation of innovative teams that tackle established questions with the goal of seeding future large-scale program grant applications. Many major questions in neuroscience can be solved only by assembling teams of skilled researchers using multiple established techniques to achieve progress where no one laboratory can succeed alone. By seeding innovative project team creation, initial support from Kavli has the potential to lead to long-term support from extramural sources. The application should explain why a combination of techniques by a diverse team is necessary to advance understanding of a high-impact neuroscience issue, and has the potential to generate future long-term extramural support. Proposals should delineate both the short-term goals for the team to be funded by the grant and the long-term objectives that the team will address once established. Identifying potential long-term funding sources will be considered a positive review factor. 

Important Dates

 Please submit all application materials to https://apply.interfolio.com/175218 by March 1, 2026, 11:59 pm. Funding can begin as early as May 2026.

 Terms

 The Innovative Teams Award will support cutting-edge research that assembles research teams with long-term goals of solving major issues in neuroscience. Per Kavli Foundation stipulations, funds are not to be used for faculty salaries, but can be used for other research expenses. Proposals with one-year budgets of up to a total of $100,000 for collaborative projects involving 2 or more labs will be considered.

Qualifications

 Eligibility

At least 75% of the team should be affiliated with Yale. Each team should include at least one junior faculty member (Assistant Professor at the time of award).

Application Instructions

 Procedure

All documents must be uploaded to the application portal in PDF format at https://apply.interfolio.com/175218. Submissions are done only via Interfolio, there is no need for business offices to route to the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) via IRES.

 Each application should include:

• a three-page proposal (single-spaced, Arial 11pt Font, maximum of one figure, excluding references)
• the NIH-style biosketch of each investigator
• a simple budget

 Applications will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee selected by the Kavli directors. Please direct any inquiries or questions to pauline.charbogne@yale.edu and charlene.bloch@yale.edu.

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Professional Conduct Review for New Faculty Hires

The final candidate, upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment/faculty appointment, may be required to disclose whether they are, or have been, the subject of any disciplinary proceeding (investigation, hearing, etc.) at previous institutions or employers, and may also be subject to a background screening. Candidates who materially misrepresent information on their resume or other application materials are ineligible for hire/appointment. Final candidates may also be required to sign a release to allow Yale to solicit information regarding any substantiated conduct violations from current and/or past employers.