Funding, News and Announcements

1. The FY24 Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) released a pre-announcement for the following funding opportunities:

• Clinical Trial Award
• Clinical Translation Research Award
• Translational Research Award
• Investigator-Initiated Research Award

Early-Career Partnering Principal Investigator (PI) Option: For all FY24 SCIRP funding opportunities, the program anticipates continuing to offer an Early Career Partnering PI option in an effort to promote enhanced research capacity within the SCI field. This option is structured to accommodate two PIs who will work together on a single research project, but each will be named to separate individual awards within the recipient organization(s). 

To exercise this option, at least one of the PIs must be an early-career investigator with at least 3 years research experience (independent or non-independent) beyond a terminal degree but no more than 7 years within their first faculty appointment, or equivalent independent research position.

Applications that employ the Early Career Partnering PI option are subject to a larger direct cost maximum and may divide budgetary costs across the two awards as appropriate for their separate efforts toward the research project proposed.

View the pre-announcement.

2. The Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program has released a pre-announcement for the following funding opportunities:

• Clinical Trial Award
• Emerging Research Award *New for FY24
• Focused Program Award
• Health Services Research Award
• Translational Research Award

View the pre-announcement.