Category Archive for : ‘Funding & Grants’

Dr. Palmer’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant titled “Efficient discovery of epistatic modifiers of Cacna1c in mice: extending on GWAS”was funded today!

Clarissa submitted her application for the Brain and Behavior NARSAD Young Investigator Grant while she was still at Palmer Lab and will be using it to further her research at Middlebury College.  Congratulations, Clarissa!

The NARSAD Young Investigator Grant provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Two year awards up to $60,000, or $30,000 per year are provided to enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty.  For more information, here is the website.

This project will support two graduate students and two or three postdocs per year. The goal of this project is to train pre- and post-doctoral students in the methodology that will be important for the next generation of progress in understanding the genetics of psychiatric health and disease. The program will emphasize the integration of computational and statistical approaches to complex datasets as well as the use of hypothesis driven laboratory-based experiments. Trainees will be prepared for the coming decades, which will see an acceleration of the trend towards multidisciplinary

Congratulations to Clarissa Parker who will be presenting at ACNP this December in Hollywood, Florida.  All of her travel expenses will be paid by the travel award.

The annual Genes, Brain & Behavior meeting will be held in Boulder, CO and is the official meeting for the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS). Travel awards are supported by a grant from NIAAA, NICHD and NIDA (2R13AA016249).

The National institute of General Medical Sciences has just issued a notice of grant award for the project titled “Genome-wide association studies in outbred mice” (R01GM097737). This 4 year project has a total cost of just over $2 million dollars and is the third R01 grant awarded to Dr. Palmer.

Camron got official word today that his K99/R00 grant was funded by NIDA. This will support him for 2 more years as a postdoc and 3 additional years once he has an independent position. Congratulations to Camron!