http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding/funding_news Here are the top science research and funding opportunities from this month's Funding News, compliments of GrantsNet http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=3681 Amino acids have a variety of roles in the biological system. AjinomotoCo., Inc., Japan is interested in supporting innovative research focusing on the biological aspects of amino acids, such as nutritional, physiological, and pharmacological functions and properties. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. welcomes applications from individual investigators or from groups of investigators from the same, or from different institutions working together to pursue a general overall theme with common objectives. This call will focus on exploratory research grants and young investigator research grants. 2010-03-31 http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=4674 Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise to approach questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring together scientist from different disciplines (e.g. from chemistry, physics, computer science, engineering) to focus on problems in the life sciences. The research teams must be international. The principal applicant must be from one of the eligible countries. However, other participating scientists and laboratories may be situated anywhere in the world. 2010-03-22 http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=5636 The Bernstein Award supports research projects in computational neuroscience, thus enabling excellent young researchers working in this field to implement innovative project ideas in German research institutions. This award is intended inter alia to promote the academic qualification of these outstanding young researchers. The projects supported under the Bernstein Award will become a part of the National Network for Computational Neuroscience and give new impetus to scientific activities. 2010-05-25 http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=5198 The objective of the Welcome Program is to engage outstanding researchers from abroad in creating research teams in Poland and intensifying international cooperation of the Polish institutes and universities. The program is addressed to foreign researchers with at least a Ph.D. degree who either plan to work in Poland, or have already established their research teams in our country, however not earlier than 5 years prior to the cut-off date. Polish researchers with at least a Ph.D. degree, who either have stayed abroad for at least 2 years and intend to come back to Poland or have already returned to Poland (however not earlier than 2 years prior to the cut-off date), are also eligible for this award. 2010-04-15 http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=6702 The Lundbeck Foundation hereby invites applications for two advanced neuroscience grants which will be awarded to excellent researchers with documented experience as independent leaders of high-quality neuroscience research groups at universities or university hospitals. The grants will be awarded for 5 years, and each individual grant amounts to 3 million Euro. 2010-04-28