Eligibility

The Consortium is funded by the National Institute of Health Neurosciences Blueprint with the NINDS and NIMH being the lead institutes. Several criteria must be fulfilled to take advantage of this NIH funded consortium:

• Grant holders. Investigators who would like to take advantage of the services of the consortium must hold current research grants through one of the following institutes and have a project specific to neurosciences research (as decided by the consortium PIs and NIH Program Scientists from NINDS and NIMH):
  
  • National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (lead Institute)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (lead Institute)
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
  • National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
  • National Eye Institute (NEI)
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
  • National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
  • Eligible research grants must be active at the time of proposal submission, and have current year funding (no-cost extensions do not confer eligibility).
  • Eligible grant mechanisms include R01, R03, R21, R24, R41, R42, R43, R44, K01, K02, K08, K22, K23, K24 and K25, P01, P50, U01, U24, U44, U54, and S11.
  • "F" and "T" mechanisms are not eligible, but trainees can access the consortium if their mentor has an eligible award.
  • R13 and U13 mechanisms are not eligible.
• Proposal. A short project description must be submitted — this is a 2 page submission which clearly outlines the hypothesis and proposed experimental design. The online project description on the Consortium website serves as means of communication between the inevestigator and the Consortium. Information about the project (including experimental aims, procedure, hypothesis, and relevance) and the sample annotation information are obtained in the online project description. This information is critical for the data analysis that is done through the Consortium. Additionally the project annotation is important because the Consortium makes the raw data and project description publicly available six months after hybridization of the arrays has been completed. Once the project description is submitted online , the investigator will receive information on where to send samples and contact information for the scientists at the microarray facility. Additionally investigators can track the progress of the project through the website.
  
  
• Sharing. Investigators must agree to allow the center to publicly post all data 6 months following the completion of the project. Completion occurs after acquiring data from the last array of the approved project.