Research funding
Neuroscience
200+ open programsCatalog updated
Neuroscience sits awkwardly across the funding world. The work is expensive, the federal programs are heavily contested, and the private funders split between broad brain-science foundations and a long list of organizations attached to one disease.
The disease-attached funders are the ones people underuse. The Neurological Foundation runs the largest block of programs here. The Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation, the American Brain Foundation, CurePSP and the Brain Research Foundation each fund work tied to their own condition, and the review pools are small. If your project touches one of those conditions even at an angle, the odds are better there than in a general competition.
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Fellowships are the largest category, ahead of research projects, so this money mostly supports people early in their careers rather than established labs. Postdocs are eligible for more of these programs than any other stage. The median award is $20,000 and only a fifth carry a dated deadline.
Work a neuroscientist would call theirs is often filed under health, psychology or biology, so check those hubs too.
Open programs 200+
Pradel Research Award
The National Academy of Sciences presents the annual Pradel Research Award to recognize mid‑career neuroscientists whose work has made major contributions to understanding the nervous system, and includes a $50,000 research award to be designated to an institution chosen by the recipient.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $50,000
CurePSP New Investigator Award (2026)
CurePSP, a foundation dedicated to PSP/CBD research, offers grants to early-career investigators with fresh perspectives.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $100,000
FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships
FENS and IBRO-PERC offer exchange fellowships of up to EUR 4,000 to support four-week to four-month laboratory visits that provide neuroscience Master’s and PhD students and early-career postdoctoral researchers with methodological training in established European laboratories.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $4,000
These are the soonest deadlines of 200+ open programs. FundFit holds every one, screens it against the researchers at your institution, and names who should apply.
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