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Leveraging our strength as VT scientists who focus on neurodevelopment studies

Funding & Grants

Seed Funding for Doctoral Scholars

Funding for PhD graduate students performing neurodevelopment research in the Spring or Summer of 2023. 

Qualifications:

  • Any doctoral scholar performing dissertation research (year 2-year 5) in an Alliance affiliated laboratory
  • Research should be directly related to neurodevelopment. Preference will be given to those applications forging interdisciplinary collaborations across two Alliance
  • laboratories.
  • Funding can be requested to support Spring 2023 stipend + tuition or summer 2023 stipend support. Up to 6 awards will be funded in total.

Applications are closed for Spring and Summer 2023.

Travel Fellowship

Program Overview:

  • Any doctoral scholar performing dissertation research (year 2-year 5) in an Alliance affiliated laboratory.
  • Research should be directly related to neurodevelopment.
  • Up to $750 to cover meeting expenses (registration, flight, hotel).
  • Application accepted on a rolling basis through March 31, 2023.

Complete the Google Form application.

Items to upload: 

  • Abstract Title and Authors
  • Abstract
  • An updated applicant CV
  • A letter of endorsement from the dissertation mentor

Seed Funding Awards

  • Ya-Yun Chen: Psychology- How parent child neural similarity interacts with the neurobiological development of emotional adaptation, aggression and prosociality during adolescence
  • Megan Fok: Psychology- Measuring autonomic correlates of emotion regulation in autistic adults
  • Taylor Fosset: Biological Sciences- The effect of early life nutrition in the NPY system and its role in regulating aggression in adulthood
  • Xiaoran Wei: School of Neuroscience- Mechanism and Function of TrkB.T1 in astrocyte expression