Scientific Innovations Award Guidelines
The 2026 Scientific Innovations Award (SIA) opens on April 1, 2025.
If your institution did not receive an invitation directly from BRF via e-mail, then you are not eligible to apply. To learn more about institutional eligibility and our application guidelines, click below.
INSTITUTIONAL ELEGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
If you and your team are on the cusp of making a neurological scientific discovery that will impact society and the medical, scientific or structural approaches taken to brain disease, disorders or development and learning, you could be eligible to apply for our Scientific Innovation Award.
Below are just some of the innovative scientific studies BRF have funded to date.
Award Archive
Investigations supported by Scientific Innovations Awards yield high-impact findings and result in major grant applications and significant publications in respected journals.
The Neuroscience of Families: Social Behavior in Naturalistic Controlled Environments
Brain Regeneration Dynamics Using the Transparent Fish Danionella Cerebrum Understanding how psychedelics affect top-down belief propagation in the primate brain
Using Computer Models of the Neural Mechanisms of Visual Processing to Non-Invasively Modulate Brain States
Learning from Error: Defining how Cerebellar Circuits Drive Adaptation in a Changing World
All Optically Probing the Neural Codes of Perception in the Primate Brain Human-specific Alternative Splicing, BrainDevelopment, and Ciliopathies
Apply for a Scientific Innovations Award
Scientific Innovation Awards are $150,000 2-year grants directed at projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources, but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. The Principal Investigator (PI) must be an associate or full professor working in the field of neuroscience.
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