• Program Information
• Letter of Intent Deadline:
  

  January 4, 2013

• Program Description

  The Dana Foundation supports research on imaging innovations that help reveal how the human brain functions normally, how disorders and injuries alter these functions, and how various therapies affect these conditions. Since immune cells are often integrally involved in the development of, protection against, or responses to brain diseases and injuries, funded research also can focus on immune cell interactions with brain cells.
  
  The Foundation allows each U.S. medical school dean, to nominate ONE applicant using either:

  • Physiological and Structural imaging - anatomical imaging of white or gray matter and measures of physiological functioning. These proposed studies should focus on patient-oriented clinical research.
  • Cellular/molecular imaging - biochemical actions of specific brain cells, or their interactions with immune cells, which have direct clinical relevance to human health and disease. These studies may involve human tissues or animal models. Applications can involve the study of cells within neural circuits, using a combination of imaging and single cell electrical recording, if the techniques have already been developed.
  The funding may be up to $200,000 total, payable over three years. The Dana Foundation seeks to continue to support the generation and testing of novel high risk but important hypotheses using conventional systems imaging techniques to view brain tissue and is designed to support pilot testing of promising but high-risk innovative ideas.
  
  Depending on the level of interest in this program, an internal competition may be needed. Please let Debbie Meltzer (dmeltzer@wisc.edu) know by Friday, January 4, 2013, at Noon if you will be applying so that an internal competition can be arranged, if necessary.
  
  Preliminary proposals are due to the Dana Foundation by Tuesday, February 21, 2013 at Noon.

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