| Funding or Award Criteria |
Program Description: The Dana Foundation’s imaging research program focuses on improving human brain and brain-immune functioning in health and disease. The program consists of two tracks. Both tracks support pilot-testing of promising but high-risk innovative ideas that have direct clinical application and that, when successful, are competitive for larger scale support from other funders. The program focuses on providing support to faculty researchers who clearly demonstrate the potential to advance in academic research careers, and who are early in their careers, at the assistant professor level, or in the early years of their associate professor appointment. The program is designed to enable investigators to obtain pilot data more quickly than it is possible through other funding processes. Investigations must be applicable to human brain or brain-immune functioning or malfunctioning to be considered for funding. Research that can be supported through clinical income should not be submitted.
Track A: Proposals involving conventional imaging of anatomical of physiological brain functioning should involve patient-oriented clinical research. Exceptions for considering research in animal models or in human tissues will be made on in cases where the research has direct clinical relevance, but cannot yet be safely and effectively conducted in humans. Promising career investigators who have not yet been awarded their first independent research grant (R01 from NIH or equivalent from another Federal agency) or have received only one such grant at the time of applying are eligible to apply for funding of up to $200,000 payable over three years. Those applicants with two or more R01’s proposing to undertake research using conventional brain imaging technologies are eligible to receive funding totaling up to $100,000 payable over three years.
Track B: Cellular and molecular imaging proposals should have direct clinical relevance, and focus on the biological activities of human brain cells, or their interactions with immune cells in health and disease. These studies may involve human tissues or animal models. Applications can involve the study of cells within neural circuits, using a combination of imaging and single cell electrical recording, if the techniques have already been developed. Applicants for all cellular and molecular imaging studies can request up to $200,000 total, payable over three years. |
| VPR Required Documents |
Please submit the following materials electronically to limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu no later than 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2008:
- Dean's or ORU Director's Letter of Nomination specifying if the proposal is Track A or Track B.
- Two page maximum describing the aims of the proposed research project.
- The biographical sketch of the UT PI in NIH format.
Each department should submit all proposals forward with a ranking from the Dean/Associate Dean for Research.
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