Young scientists awarded $719,701 in grants
Marking its 27th year of bestowing transformative research grants on young scientists, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly known as NARSAD, or the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) announced $11.8 million in 200 new, two-year grant awards, including $719,701 in new grants to 12 Harvard researchers. The foundation has awarded 3,497 two-year research grants to young investigators since the inception of its NARSAD Grants program in 1987. This $204.4 million investment in early career scientists’ bold, outside-the-box research ideas has reached across the world to 33 countries in an unprecedented effort by a privately funded philanthropy. Harvard has been a major beneficiary of Brain & Behavior Research Foundation research support, receiving approximately $22 million to 258 grantees since 1987. “Harvard University is known throughout the world as one of the great centers for neuroscience and psychiatric research,” said Jeffrey Borenstein, the president and CEO of the Brain & Behavior...