Funding Opportunities

Request for Applications: CoNDA Core Usage Voucher Program

Cognitive Neuroscience of Development & Aging (CoNDA) Center

Funding Opportunity (CoNDA Core Usage Voucher Program) - Released January 10th, 2024

Application Deadline: 5:00pm on Monday, February 5th, 2024

Program Summary

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Development & Aging (CoNDA) Center, a NIH/NIGMS funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), offers research vouchers to pay for services provided by CoNDA Research Cores, with the goal of supporting data collection for research proposals and stimulating new research directions within the Center’s theme. Successful applicants will receive services from CoNDA Center Cores for up to $5,000 (in $1,000 increments) to be utilized in 1 year. This program is targeted towards investigators in a faculty position at CoNDA participating institutions (UNMC, UNO, Creighton & Boys Town). Applications proposing the study of animal models or human subjects will be considered. 

For this cycle, priority will be given to vouchers requesting to use the Intravital Imaging Core (Multiphoton Microscope, Clarity and Light Sheet Fluorescent Microscope).

Pre-Evaluation from CoNDA Core Directors

Applicants must consult with the Core Directors to ensure feasibility of the proposed project and budget. Use of one or more Core is permitted. Core Director(s) will need to review and sign applications prior to final submission.

Translational Imaging & Behavioral Assessment (TIBA) Core:  

• Intravital Imaging Core: Heather Jensen Smith, PhD (jensensmith@unmc.edu)
• Animal Behavior Assessment Core: Mystera Samuelson, PhD (samuelson@unmc.edu)
• Small Animal MRI Core: Yutong Liu, PhD (yutongliu@unmc.edu)

Neuroimaging Acquisition & Analysis Core:

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): David Warren, PhD (warren@unmc.edu)
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG): Valentina Gumenyuk, PhD (vgumenyuk@unmc.edu)

Grant Forms and Submission Information

Applicants may submit only one application per cycle.

Utilize the CoNDA Core Usage Voucher Program Application 2024 (click link to download) packet to generate your project proposal. Provide a 1-page description of the study design and the need for core usage. Voucher applications must describe how the results generated will be utilized to support new research proposals.

Email completed and signed application with your NIH Biosketch to kpanas@unmc.edu by 5PM CST on Monday, February 5^th, 2024. 

Anticipated project start date is March 1^st, 2024.