ARIA: Precision Neurotechnologies - full proposals

Backed by £69m, this programme will unlock new methods to understand, identify, and treat neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Opportunity Details

When

Registration Opens

09/08/2024

Registration Closes

09/09/2024

Award

Full project budgets range from £400k to £10m, depending on which area of the call the project covers. ARIA generally do not require matching funds and aim to provide full cost recovery in order to maximise the speed and accessibility of awards.

Organisation

ARIA

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ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency) see a critical opportunity to develop next-generation tools that interface with the human brain at the circuit level.

Operating across distributed brain regions and with cell type specificity, these new platform technologies could yield breakthroughs in disease understanding and diagnosis, alleviate bottlenecks in existing therapies, and move us closer to a world in which personalised brain health care is available to everyone.

Our goal: to unite the frontiers of engineered biology and hardware to treat many of the complex and devastating brain disorders affecting individuals and communities worldwide.

This solicitation seeks R&D Creators, which are individuals and teams that ARIA will fund to:

  • Develop a suite of next-generation precision neurotechnologies to enable circuit-level access to the central nervous system, with cell type specificity and across distributed macro- and micro-brain circuits.
  • Demonstrate that precision neurotechnologies, when combined with advances in computation simulations, will unlock entirely new therapeutic capabilities that are not possible with existing approaches.
  • Understand the factors that will be critical for the adoption of future neurotechnologies, with the goal of developing concrete and actionable recommendations to the wider neurotechnology community.

ARIA welcome applications from across the R&D ecosystem, including individuals, universities, research institutions, small, medium and large companies, charities and public sector research organisations.

Please note we are no longer accepting concept papers* for Precision Neurotechnologies – you will be able to submit a full proposal from 9 August to 9 September.

If you missed the deadline for submission of concept papers you can still submit a full proposal. However, ARIA strongly encourage you to submit a concept paper (the call for this was open during July 2024). On average, only 8% of applicants that do not submit a concept paper are selected for award.

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