Awarded Seed Funding

Second year undergraduate Nazanin Setayeshpour dissecting a fruit fly brain in the lab of Jay Hirsh.

Since 2017, the Brain Institute has awarded over $5 million to nearly 170 faculty members across 38 departments representing the School of Medicine, College of Arts & Sciences, School of Education and Human Development, School of Nursing, School of Engineering & Applied Science, and School of Data Science. 

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2025 Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant Awards

The Brain Institute is pleased to announce the 2025 Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant awardees.

2024 Seed Funding Awards

2024 Brain Institute Seed Funding Awards

2023 Seed Funding Awards

2023 seed funding award recipients.

2021 Transformative Aging and Neurodegeneration Pilot Grants

2021 transformative aging and neurodegeneration pilot grant awardees.

2021 UVA Brain & Data Science Project Sprint

2021 brain and data science project sprint award recipients.

2019 Seed Funding Awards

2019 seed funding awards recipients.

2018 3Cavaliers Seed Funding

2019 3Cavaliers program in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research.

2018 Seed Funding Awards

2018 seed funding award recipients.

2017 Seed Funding Awards

2017 seed funding award recipients.