We are pleased to announce that Washington University recently was awarded an NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Interdisciplinary Center Core grant. This P30 grant will be administered through the Hope Center, and provides funding for the following Core facilities:

• Biospecimen and Clinical Data Acquisition
• Neuroproteomics
• Genomics
• Viral Vectors
• Optical Imaging
  • Bakewell Neuroimaging Lab
  • Alafi Neuroimaging Lab
  • Biology Imaging Lab
• Functional Assessment
• Animal Behavior
• In Vitro Physiology
• In Vivo Physiology
• Informatics
• Administration and Dissemination

These Core facilities are open to all members of the Neuroscience community. For additional information including descriptions of each of the cores, visit http://hopecenter.wustl.edu/blueprint/

Our recently-awarded P30 is part of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, an effort to enhance collaboration among the NIH Office of the Director and 15 NIH Institutes and Centers.  The Blueprint plan is theme-based over the next several years:

FY 2007: Neurodegeneration

FY 2008: Neurodevelopment

FY 2009: Plasticity

For FY 2007, a Blueprint Neurodegeneration Project Team is developing activities that should translate into funding opportunities in the near future.  For a more detailed description, visit http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/blueprint_basics/initiative_concepts.htm

For FY 2008, there is an outstanding Request for Information (RFI) regarding Tools and Research in Neurodevelopment: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-06-114.html

Blueprint funding opportunities:

• Biomarkers for Neurodegeneration (R21)
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-07-004.html      

• NRSA for Interdisciplinary Individual Postdoctoral Fellows for Training in Neurodegeneration Research (F32) 
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-07-004.html   

• Short-Term Interdisciplinary Career Enhancement Awards for Neurodegeneration Research (K18) 
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DC-07-005.html

• Therapeutics Delivery for Neurodegenerative Diseases (R21)
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EY-07-001.html

Please remember to acknowledge the P30 Neuroscience Blueprint Grant and/or the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders in your publications and presentations.  Here is some suggested language for the P30:

"This work was supported by NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Core Grant NS057105 to Washington University."