This funding supports establishment of facilities at minority-serving and IDeA-eligible institutions for scaled production and distribution of brain cell type-specific reagents such as viral vectors and nanoparticles. Awardees will collaborate with the BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium community to optimize and disseminate these tools, enabling precise circuit function studies in experimental animals and human tissues.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of U.S. entities such as county and state governments, nonprofits, for-profits, small businesses, tribal governments, and various educational institutions including minority-serving and historically black colleges. Foreign organizations are not eligible to ap
