Funding Sources
Funding Sources for Neonatal Neurology Research
Please contact info@newbornbrainsociety.org if you know of another funding source that should be added to this list.
Newborn Brain Society Early Career Award
Funding Sources – International
Academic Societies:
- International Child Neurology Association
- World Federation of Neurology
- Child Neurology Society/Foundation
- American Epilepsy Society
- Society for Pediatric Research
- Sleep Research Society
Industry/Pharma:
Most Pharma companies offer investigator-initiated grants, as well as their own sponsored research.
Funding Sources in USA
National or International Government Funding Agencies:
NIH institutes (USA):
Private / Nonprofit Foundations:
- Thrasher
- March of Dimes
- United Cerebral Palsy
- Hood – New England
- Gerber
- Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation
- PERF
- PCORI – Patient centered outcomes research
- AHA – American Heart Association
- CPQCC
- Dana Foundation – New England
- Gates Foundation
Funding Sources in Canada
Federal Funding Sources:
- CIHR
- Brain Canada
- Heart & Stroke Canada
- Genome Canada
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (infrastructure)
- NSERC (if engineering focus)
- Human Frontiers Science Program (joint federal initiative) Provincial institutes
- Ontario Brain Institute (Ontario)
- FRQS (Quebec)
- MSFHR (BC)
- Alberta Health Services (Alberta)
Funding Sources in Australia
Government:
- Australian Research Council (basic science, international collaborations)
- National Health and Medical Research Council (health, international collaborations)
- Medical research future fund (MRFF)
Charities:
Funding Sources in New Zealand
Large, Government supported funders paying overheads:
This is the primary funder of basic, translation and clinical health research.
The Marsden typically funds high risk ideas in basic biomedical science.
Supports strategic partnerships
Independent charities that support health research. They do not pay overheads:
They support health research for children of all ages.
Funding Sources in United Kingdom, Europe
Government:
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- Innovate-UK (clinical and industry collaboration)
Charities:
- The Wellcome trust
- Action Medical Research for Children
- Wellbeing of women
- GOSH-Sparks charity
Funding Sources in Africa (some non-African funding agencies partner with local groups)