Neuroscience Affinity Group – Key Questions Submission Form

Neuroscience Affinity Group Idea Solicitation
The CBC Neuroscience Affinity Group is a new funding initiative that supports and accelerates high-risk/high-reward neuroscience research across multiple Chicago institutions. Based on Team Science concepts, the Affinity Groups will engender novel collaborative research proposals. CBC Affinity Group awards can range up to $250,000 total for use over one to two years. Given limitations in finding and hiring personnel, the majority of the CBC Affinity Group award funding should be used to support a joint postdoc at a competitive salary ($90,000 base)and their experiments in support of the Scientific Team's proposal. Please review the Eligibility Criteria. 

The process will include a series of in-person and zoom format meetings, coupled with shepherding and workshopping to potentially yield full-fledged ideas that will be supported by funding a postdoc. The meetings are scheduled as follows:

  • April 17th;  9:00 AM:
    In-person meeting to discuss key scientific questions
    The Affinity Group forms scientific teams to submit proposals (deadline May 30th)

  • June 5th; 9:00 AM:
    Virtual Meeting - Refinement of proposals

  • June 20th; 1:00 PM:
    In-person Meeting - Prioritization of proposals
KEY QUESTIONS SUBMISSION FORM:

Please submit key questions for the categories listed below which you would like to discuss at the Neuroscience Affinity Group meeting on April 17, 2023 for the following categories:

  • Cerebrovascular diseases
  • Neuroinflammation
  • Neurodevelopment, cellular signaling and organelle dysfunction
  • Genomics/Epigenomics
  • Other topic(s)

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