Innovative Research Program

Now in our fifth year of granting awards for innovative research, especially research focused on ideas that bridge brain and mind organization levels, with the goal of stimulating testing hypotheses for which no standard funding stream is available. Preference is given to collaborative proposals, those representing several disciplines and/or laboratories and for projects that catalyze new collaborative research. Another goal of this program is to generate preliminary data leading to new grant funding from other agencies.

We have made as many awards as possible each year for amounts generally around $30,000 each. We are proud of our five-year record: 51 grants totaling $1.49 million awarded to 153 investigators at UCSD, the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, the Neurosciences Research Institute, and the Scripps Research Institute.

UCSD's Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind has announced its annual Innovative Research Awards. This year’s grants encompass a wide range of topics...