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Request for Applications: Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards

Applications due June 22, 2023 by 5 p.m. Pacific Time

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites letters of intent for Cycle 2 of the Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards ([link removed] ) to support pairs of investigators and their teams to explore innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to address critical challenges in the neurodegenerative disease field and in areas of fundamental neuroscience such as the cellular, molecular and circuit mechanisms of cognition & memory and the neuroscience of sleep. Awards are $200,000 in total costs per collaborating pair for a period of 18 months, after which successful projects will be eligible to apply for additional four-year acceleration grants that build on pilot phase studies. Collaborative Pairs teams will benefit from the support, mentoring and collaborative interactions of the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, as well as interactions with the broader CZ Science programs and grantee network. Learn about our Cycle 1 grantees ([link removed] ) and apply now ([link removed] ) . We are accepting letters of intent until 5 p.m. Pacific Time on June 22, 2023.

Additionally, the NDCN is hosting an informational webinar about the Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards on May 24, 2023, from 9-9:50 am Pacific Time to talk more about the opportunity and answer pre-submitted questions. Register and submit questions in advance ([link removed] ) .

The CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network (NDCN) was launched in 2018 as a new type of collaborative research network that brings together biologists, computational scientists, engineers, and physicians from across broad research areas who are motivated by collaboration and open science to tackle unsolved challenges in neurodegenerative disease. Collaboration is at the core of the vision for the Challenge Network approach, and in developing the NDCN program strategy, we have sought to create funding mechanisms that motivate and support novel collaborative approaches that will lead to innovative, risk-taking science.

The Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards program was developed as a funding mechanism to catalyze new collaborations and scientific partnerships and springboard early-stage projects that are bold, creative, and “out-of-the-box". We recognize that great collaborations can take many forms — from teams of two to large consortia and everything in between. The Collaborative Pairs mechanism focuses specifically on pairs of investigators. While scientific creativity is often represented as emanating from a singular lone genius, science works best when it is a collaborative effort, and it’s often creative duos and partnerships that fuel the engines of innovation.

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