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:

• Medtronic
• Edwards
• Moberg

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):

• NINDS
• NICHD
• NHLBI
• NINR – Nursing
• NIBIB – bioengineering
• NEI – Eye Institute

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:

• Cerebral Palsy Alliance (Global)
• Financial Markets for Children
• CASS foundation
• Ian Potter
• Ramaciotti

Funding Sources in New Zealand

Large, Government supported funders paying overheads:

• Health Research Council of New Zealand.

This is the primary funder of basic, translation and clinical health research.

• The Marsden Fund

The Marsden typically funds high risk ideas in basic biomedical science.

• The Catalyst Fund

Supports strategic partnerships

• The Rutherford Fellowships

Independent charities that support health research. They do not pay overheads:

• The Auckland Medical Research Fund
• The Neurological research foundation
• The Heart Foundation
• CureKids

They support health research for children of all ages.

• Lottery Health Research
• The Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust

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)

• International Child Neurology Association
• World Federation of Neurology
• Wellcome Trust
• Grand Challenges