Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health (NCAMH)

The Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health (NCAMH) is a capacity-building grant programme to strengthen neuroscience research on anxiety, depression and psychosis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). It supports collaborative projects led by investigators based at LMIC institutions and provides professional development activities over a nine-month period, including in-person exchanges, virtual workshops and webinars. Selected projects receive grant support to develop pilot data and prepare competitive future grant proposals.

Up to USD $60,000 in project funding; a nine-month professional development programme including in-person exchanges, virtual workshops and interactive webinars to support research and collaboration development.

Project leaders must be based in and affiliated with an institution in a Low- or Middle-Income Country (LMIC) and hold independent investigator status eligible to serve as a Principal Investigator on research grants. Applicants may be researchers or clinicians employed by higher education institutions, research institutes, non-academic healthcare organisations, or not-for-profit organisations; collaborators can be based anywhere and must be from different institutions. Individuals who have previously received or served as a collaborator on an NCAMH grant are not eligible.

Submit an application via the IBRO grants portal (Smapply) using the provided application form and guidance materials.