Our Seed Grants program sparks new collaborations between scientists from across the university to engage in innovative, collaborative research projects in the neurosciences.
Seed grant research projects should involve at least two independent co-PI's who combine their expertise in an innovative fashion to address important problems in basic and clinical neuroscience.
We encourage applications from teams forming unique connections between neuroscience and other bastions of disciplinary strength at Stanford (e.g.: engineering and the quantitative sciences, chemical and molecular biology, the social sciences, humanities and professional schools of education, law and business).
Seed Grants 2025 - Applications open Feb 4 to Apr 25
Successful proposals will be awarded for a two-year period in the total amount of $300,000 ($150,000 per year).
Funded Seed Grant projects
Life-long, minimally invasive, and multiplex transcriptional profiling of the cerebellum
Novel ketone-derived anticonvulsant agents for the treatment of childhood refractory epilepsy
Dissecting mechanisms of gut-brain communication in Parkinson’s Disease
Structural and mechanistic analysis of the protein-protein interface between ABCA1 and ApoE as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s Disease
Brain mechanisms of spatial reasoning in mathematics
Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms of latrophilin activation in excitatory synapse formation
Seed Grant Award Announcements
2021 - Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announces fourth round of seed grants
2019 - Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announces third round of seed grants
2017 - Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards second round of Seed Grants
2015 - Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards first round of Seed Grants