BBRF Young Investigator Grant
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Two-year seed funding for early-career investigators studying serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, autism and eating disorders. Explicitly framed as proof-of-concept money to enable later federal grants.
- Indicative award
- $35k–$70k (total award)Up to $35,000 per year for up to two years, maximum $70,000 total.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Feb, MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 cycle ran 4 Feb - 4 Mar 2026 and is closed; the site says 2027 dates are to be announced, so no future date is published yet.
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Advanced post-doctoral fellows through assistant-professor-level researchers seeking to extend fellowship training or start as independent research faculty. Institutional affiliation required; the page states no citizenship rule.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- serious mental illness · psychiatric research · pilot data · neurobiology of mental illness
- Apply at
- https://www.bbrfoundation.org/grants-prizes/bbrf-young-investigator-grants
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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