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Funding Opportunities
The Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) shares a monthly Funding Opportunities newsletter, featuring a curated selection of federal (NIH) and non-federal (private and nonprofit) funding opportunities relevant to neuroscience, brain health, and mental health research. Below are the featured NIH RFAs for January 2026. Visit our website to explore the full list and discover more funding opportunities.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Chemical Countermeasures Research Program (CCRP) Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic (UPS) Opioids (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
R01 | RFA-DA-26-034 | 11/19/27 | Learn more
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
R01 | RFA-DA-26-055 | 12/4/27 | Learn more
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
R01 | RFA-MH-26-170 | Apply by 2/9/27 | Learn more
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
R25 | RFA-AG-26-010 | Apply by 5/27/2027 | Learn more
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
F99/K00 | RFA-OD-24-007 | Apply by 7/2/26 | Learn more
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