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2025 BBRF Young Investigator Grants

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the largest non-government, donor-supported organization that distributes funds
for psychiatric brain and behavior disorder research. The Foundation’s BBRF Young Investigator Grant (YI) program offers up
to $35,000 a year for up to two (2) years to enable promising investigators to either extend their research fellowship training or
to begin careers as independent research faculty.
The program is intended to facilitate innovative research opportunities and supports basic, as well as translational and/or
clinical investigators. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric
disorders such as: schizophrenia; bipolar; mood and anxiety disorders or early onset brain and behavior disorders.
In addition to supporting the full ranges of relevant neurobiological and psychobiological basic science, we also support clinical
science, which can include careful studies using qualitative research approaches or research generating preliminary data to
explore a new hypothesis generated by clinical experience or large sample studies.
The BBRF Young Investigator Grant is not sufficient to support expensive large sample patient-based studies, but it may be
possible to attach a study to a clinical project already under way or for which other funding has become available. Some
examples of preliminary clinical studies include:
1. Support for an add-on study that would probe a potential mechanism or circuit underlying a new treatment in the context
of drug discovery.
2. Determining if a computer-based cognitive or other remediation enhances effectiveness of cognitive agents.
3. Proof of principle study to see if efficacy is detected with a new treatment.
4. Testing a novel hypothesis within an already established data set.

Specialties

Behavioural Sciences

Cell Biology

Molecular Biology

Pathology

Psychiatry

Biochemistry

Clinical Trials

Neurosciences

Physiology

Eligibility Requirements

1. BBRF welcomes diversity with BBRF grant applications including gender, race, ethnicity, and culture of the applicant,
and geographic location for their proposed work.
2. Applicants must have a doctoral level degree (e.g., M.D. with [minimum PGY-IV training, Ph.D., Psy.D., Pharm.D.,
etc.) and already be employed in research training or a faculty research position. The YI Grant is intended to support
advanced post-doctoral fellows, instructors and assistant professors (or equivalent). Anyone who has served, or is
serving, as a principal investigator (PI) on a NIH R01 grant or the equivalent (e.g., VA Merit Review grant) is not
eligible. Investigators at the rank of associate professor or equivalent are also not eligible.
3. Applicants must have an on-site mentor or senior collaborator who is an established investigator in areas relevant to
psychiatric disorders. The mentor/sponsor role is usually extensive for fellowship extension (mentor), and more senior
colleague/advisor (sponsor) for an applicant prepared to initiate independent science.
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4. Applicants may only apply twice for an initial BBRF Young Investigator Grant.
5. Applicants are eligible for a maximum of two BBRF Young Investigator Grants. Prior grantees who are currently
advanced post-doctoral, instructor or assistant professor can apply for a second grant. However, grants cannot overlap
in time, only one application for a second BBRF YI Grant is permitted, and substantial productivity on the first grant
must be documented and the applicant must show how a second grant will facilitate competition for a NIH R01 grant or
equivalent.
6. Only one principal investigator is allowed per application.
7. Funding is for one or two years and is up to $35,000 per year. The Foundation does not pay institutional overhead on
the BBRF Young Investigator Grant Program.
8. The Foundation allows considerable flexibility in the use of funds: equipment, stipends, etc., are all acceptable as long
as the support is in the service of the BBRF Young Investigator Grant research project.

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Sponsor Type:

Address: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 747 Third Avenue, 33rd Floor New York, NY 10017

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