The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The BRAIN Initiative Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) aims to support facilities that scale reagent production and distribution, focusing on technologies enabling access to different brain cell types. It encourages the establishment of production and distribution facilities accessible to a wide and diverse group of neuroscientists. This grant program emphasizes the production and dissemination of gene transfer, gene regulation, and genome engineering reagents for use in both genetically tractable and less tractable systems, including primates and human tissue. These efforts are critical for advancing future translational efforts. The reagents involved are those designed and validated under other NOFOs from the BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium for Brain Cell Access transformative project.