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A major goal of the Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center (PMNC) is to promote integrated basic, translational and clinical research efforts – with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.

FY13 Pilot Innovative Research Projects - Call for Proposals

The Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center (PMNC) announces new funding for Penn faculty whose work falls within the broad category of the neurosciences.  This funding will be offered over the course of the 2012-2013 (FY 13) academic year.

Click here to view the Call for Proposals for Innovative Pilot Research Projects. A primary goal of the Penn PMNC is to promote the initiation of projects that provide novel and creative approaches towards addressing major problems in neuroscience.  The PMNC is pleased to offer grant funding to Penn faculty in support of this mission.

Previously Awarded Projects

In 2006, 2007 and 2011 the PMNC invited proposals from full-time faculty for the support of pilot collaborative projects involving co-investigators from two or more departments in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM), or from one PSOM department and one in another school at Penn.

FY12 Pilot Collaborative Research Projects

The purpose of this program is to assist Penn neuroscience faculty in generating preliminary data that may serve as the basis for seeking longer-term funding from federal, foundation or corporate sources.

The PMNC is currently funding 10 collaborative research projects in the total amount of $500,000 for FY12. The investigators collaborating on the 10 funded projects represent 18 different departments and 5 Penn schools. The currently funded collaborative research project titles are below:

1. Development of a novel MRI biomarker to assess brain white matter
   integrity in traumatic brain injury
2. The ReCoUPS Pilot: Recovering Concussion Update on Progression of
   Symptoms
3. The role of cortico-cortical connections of the mammalian sensory cortex
   in information processing.
4. Novel FLIM based approach to study HSV-1 entry into neurons
5. Model Investigation of mTOR Pathway Modulation in Autism and Epilepsy
6. Common and Divergent Mechanisms of Anhedonia Across Psychiatric
   Disorders
7. Light-induced gene activation in C. elegans
8. Elucidating the link between stress and tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s
   disease
9. Watching the single neuron in action: monitoring metabolic responses at
   a single cell level
10. Investigation of Tau-Interacting Aminothienopyridazines

Click here to learn more about previously awarded projects.

 

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