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Schedule a 1:1 with NINDS Program staff

The NINDS Nonprofit Forum offers the opportunity to meet with a staff member for a one-on-one conversation.  These conversations will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis:

  • Monday, July 18th
  • Tuesday, July 19th: During lunch break and networking periods 
  • Wednesday, July 20th: During lunch break, networking periods, and after 3pm ET
  • Thursday, July 21st

This year’s program staff specialize in the following programs, activities, disorders, and resources:

  • NINDS Common Data Elements
  • NINDS Biorepositories and Biospecimen Exchange for Neurological Disorders (BioSEND)
  • NINDS Biomarker Program
  • NINDS Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE)
  • NINDS Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
  • NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative
  • NIH Helping to End Addition Long-term (HEAL) Initiative Preclinical Screening Platform for Pain (PSPP)
  • NIH Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)
  • NIH Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Parkinson’s Disease (AMP-PD)
  • Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias
  • Epilepsy
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Rare diseases and gene therapy
  • ME/CFS, ALS, Friedreich’s ataxia, dystonia, and other disorders
  • Search engine tools to browse NIH-funded research projects, publications, and patents resulting from NIH funding, as well as research area or disease-specific funding information:
      • Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)
      • Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC)