Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale: Innovative Teams Award - 2025

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. 

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.

Application Instructions

Application Instructions: Please submit a three-page proposal (single-spaced, Arial 11pt Font, maximum of one figure, excluding references), the NIH-style biosketch of each investigator, and a simple budget to http://apply.interfolio.com/162088 by March 1, 2025, 11:59 pm. Submissions are done only via Interfolio, there is no need for business offices to route to the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) via IRES. 

Applications will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee selected by the Kavli directors. Funding can begin as early as May 2025. Please direct any inquiries or questions to pauline.charbogne@yale.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.