Office of Research

Scientific Innovations Award

Limited Submissions

The Brain Research Foundation is inviting one senior faculty member at UW to submit a Letter of Intent for the 2023 Scientific Innovations Award (SIA). The objective of the program is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and funding as well as significant publications in high impact journals.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible, the nominee must be a full-time associate professor/full professor working in the area of neuroscience and brain function in health and disease. Current major NIH or other peer-reviewed funding is preferred but evidence of such funding in the past three years is essential. The grant period is for two years totaling $150,000. The support focus is for new research projects of the highest scientific merit.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

1. a one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2. Biosketch or CV of the PI

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The required LOI is due to the sponsor 6/23/2022 with an institutional signature, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/14/2022 if given the go‐ahead by the review committee. 

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2023

Deadlines
04/27/2022 UW Internal Deadline Closed
06/14/2022 OSP Deadline
06/23/2022 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Brain Research Foundation

Funding amount

$150,000

Maximum Number of Applications

1 (senior faculty member)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.