Open · RFA-NS-27-015 · CFDA 93.173;93.213;93.242;93.273;93.279;93.286;93.372;93.853;93.865;93.866;93.867 · Discretionary

BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Institutes of Health, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Open
Status
345d
Days left
-
Expected awards

The verdict

BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) is an open discretionary opportunity from National Institutes of Health, offering Varies by applicant. Applications close in 345 days. PlainGrants indexes 12,419 other opportunities from National Institutes of Health.

Varies
award range
Open
345 days left
93.173;93.213;93.242;93.273;93.279;93.286;93.372;93.853;93.865;93.866;93.867
CFDA program
12,419
other opportunities from National Institutes of Health

Open desk with published close date

BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales remains open until October 4, 2027 (345 days out). Award range Varies by applicant without a cost-share requirement.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

345 days left to apply

Posted May 28 → closes Oct 4, 2027

Posted May 28 Closes Oct 4

Est. Total Funding

$10,000,000

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

This funding announcement, issued by the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative, seeks transformative, cutting-edge, and innovative research that embraces new technologies, ideas, and approaches to understand brain circuit function and contributions to behavior. It is a component of the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS) Program, which aims to lay the scientific foundation for the next generation of neural circuit-based approaches for preventing and treating devastating brain disorders.This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports Specialized Projects to develop current or emerging technologies to generate comprehensive atlases of brain connectivity, with an emphasis on human, non-human primate (NHP), and mouse. Projects using other species are also permitted, if their use is well justified and the goal is to test and validate approaches that can be generalized across species. Applications may address any aspect(s) of brain connectivity and associated data pipelines, including data collection, reconstruction, analysis, integration, dissemination, and interpretation, to enable faster, more precise, and more cost-effective generation and interpretation of brain-wide wiring diagrams. Funded projects will be integrated into the BRAIN CONNECTS Network consisting of projects funded under this and preceding BRAIN CONNECTS NOFOs, as a coordinated effort aimed at developing the capabilities to generate wiring diagrams that can span entire brains across multiple scales.

Wide-open applicant board · 15 Grants.gov doors

BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales prints 15 distinct Grants.gov eligibility doors (State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; +11 more). Filter fit before reading award size as demand — most applicant classes appear on the row. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). This eligibility-code string dominates the National Institutes of Health book (9,741 peers, 78% of 12,420).

Code 00
State governments
Code 01
County governments
Code 02
City or township governments
Code 04
Special district governments
Code 05
Independent school districts
Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 07
Federally recognized tribal governments
Code 08
Public / Indian housing authorities
Code 11
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Code 12
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 13
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education
Code 22
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Code 23
Small businesses
Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

View full details, application forms, and submission instructions.

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Agency Contact

The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative BRAIN-CONNECTS-Inquiries@nih.gov

What to do next

BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales is open with Varies by applicant awards and 345 days left on the clock.

  • Submit through Grants.gov (RFA-NS-27-015) - verify SAM.gov registration and the current NOFO before drafting. Official listing
  • Look up CFDA 93.173;93.213;93.242;93.273;93.279;93.286;93.372;93.853;93.865;93.866;93.867 across all indexed listings before you commit to this opportunity alone. Eligibility finder
  • National Institutes of Health lists 12,419 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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