Funding Opportunity

Mouse Models Containing Human Alleles: Novel Tools to Study Brain Function (R21/R33)

Institution: 
NIMH
Submission deadline: 
28 Jan 2011

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) with participation from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), invites Phased Innovation (R21/R33) grant applications from organizations /institutions that propose the development and characterization of novel mouse models that express human genes or human genetic elements that can aid in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying brain development and function relevant to candidate genes/gene dosing abnormalities that may be implicated in  bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, developmental disorders, addiction, and alcoholism and neurodegenerative disorders of aging.

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