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NINDS Supports Outstanding Projects Using Invertebrate Model Systems

The mission of NINDS is to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system, and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease. We frequently receive questions about whether NINDS prefers one animal model over another. NINDS mission is impartial to the model system employed, but is advanced by the neuroscientific impact of each research project. We would not presume to instruct investigators on what model to employ to answer the question they are most passionate about pursuing. Rather, we have great respect for the peer review system, where each scientist has the opportunity to make his or her case to a review committee. Given constrained resources over the past 12 years, we realize that the peer review process has become taxed, but we feel that it remains the best and most democratic system in the world.

Neuroscience applicants using invertebrate model systems have successfully competed for NINDS grant funding in peer review in recent years. More Message

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