BBRF - Young Investigator Grants 2025

Research

What?

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Grant programme provides funding to support promising early career researchers undertaking innovative basic, translational or clinical research to either extend their research fellowship training or to begin careers as independent research faculty. The overall objective of these awards is to help researchers launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry and gather pilot data to apply for larger government and university grants.

Research funded by the BBRF Young Investigator Grants should aim to advance the understanding, treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mood and anxiety disorders or early-onset brain and behavior disorders.

Basic research across the full range of the relevant neurobiological and psychobiological sciences is eligible, as are clinical studies using qualitative research approaches or research generating preliminary data to explore a new hypothesis generated by clinical experience or large sample studies (while large sample patient-based studies are generally out of scope, it may be possible to attach a study to a clinical project already underway or for which other funding has become available).

Duration: 2 years
Budget: up to $35,000 a year. Funding can be used flexibly for project costs, including equipment or stipend.

Who?

Eligible applicants are advanced postdoctoral fellows, instructors and assistant professors (or equivalent). Applicants should have a doctoral level degree (eg MD, PhD, PsyD, PharmD) and be employed in research training or a faculty research position. While the BBRF is based in the United States, applicants may be based anywhere in the world and there are no citizenship restrictions.

Applicants for this grant must also have an on-site mentor or senior collaborator who is an established investigator in areas relevant to psychiatric disorders.
  

Application?

Deadline submission: Tuesday, March 12, 2025, no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern.

More information?

More information and the guidelines for application can be found on the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation website.

Please contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.
  

Deadline

12.03.2025

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269052