Assistance program
21st Century Cures Act: Regenerative Medicine Initiative
$15.3 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- National Institutes of Health, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements)
- CFDA number
- 93.370
- What it does
- To provide support for initiatives funded under the 21st Century Cures Act to support the BRAIN Initiative’s aim of revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space. Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize,
- Who benefits
- Any nonprofit or for-profit organization, company, or institution engaged in biomedical research.
- Who applies
- The awardee will be a university, college, hospital, public agency, nonprofit research institution or for-profit organization that applies and receives a grant for support of research by a named principal investigator. To be eligible for funding, a grant application must be approved for scientific merit and program relevance by a scientific review group and a national advisory council.
- Authorized by
- 21st Century Cures Act , Apprporiation75X5628
- Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992
- Program site
- Not Applicable
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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