Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested but not required): January 14, 2023
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 7, 2023
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 14, 2023
Award Information: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $450,000. No more than $225,000 may be requested in any single year. NIH intends to commit an estimated total of $3.4M to fund approximately 15 awards.
This FOA seeks applications with limited scope proposing a set of planning activities that will lay the groundwork for a scientific project aimed at integrating complementary theories and methods to 1) develop, validate, and apply cutting-edge tools and methods for minimally invasive, multi-dimensional, high-resolution measurement of behavior at the level of the organism, with synchronous capture of changes in the organism’s social or physical environment; and/or 2) develop computational methods that allow for integration of multi-dimensional behavioral and environmental data representing multiple timescales into a conceptual and/or computational model of behavior as a complex dynamic system, designed with the capacity to integrate synchronously recorded neural data and/or inform existing models of neurobehavioral function, such as those developed with the support of the NIH BRAIN Initiative. The purpose of this FOA is to support planning and development of the research framework, design, and approach, including activities that will establish feasibility, validity, and/or other technically qualifying results that, if successful, would support a competitive application for a U01, R01 or equivalent NIH research award.