Open federal opportunity · RFA-DA-28-013

Neural Ensembles & Used Substances (NExUS) Collaboratory: Building a Multimodal Inventory of Cell Ensembles Encoding the Effects of Addictive Substances (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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Health

Deadline

February 8, 2027

110 days remaining

Award range

—

$4,000,000 estimated program funding

Applicant signal

Nonprofit applicant type listed

the official notice controls eligibility

Official synopsis

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invites applications to renew and expand the Collaboratory on Neural Ensembles and Used Substances (NExUS).NExUS is a collaborative research program to decode how substance use experiences and addictive neurobehavioral states are represented in the brain at the level of cell populations. This funding opportunity seeks applications that propose systematic and scalable methods to identify, map, and analyze groups of neurons that respond to used substances. The goal is to create a comprehensive, multimodal database and use it to test hypotheses about how specific neural population activity patterns relate to behavioral states associated with substance use and substance use disorders (SUD), including intoxication, craving, and dependence.

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Coded applicant types
  • 00 — State governments
  • 01 — County governments
  • 02 — City or township governments
  • 04 — Special district governments
  • 05 — Independent school districts
  • 06 — Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
  • 07 — Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
  • 08 — Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities
  • 11 — Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments
  • 12 — 501(c)(3) nonprofits other than institutions of higher education
  • 13 — Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education
  • 20 — Private institutions of higher education
  • 22 — For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • 23 — Small businesses
  • 25 — Other applicants; see the official eligibility clarification

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