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Read the full May 1, 2025, GSL newsletter.
A regional collaborative effort hopes to secure significant funding that will help elevate St. Louis as a national hub for neuroscience research. Led by innovation hub BioSTL and neuroscience coalition Neuro360, a proposal for a $160 million National Science Foundation grant is intended to boost regional innovation.
"This competition is not institution against institution; it's about regions versus regions," said Donn Rubin, President and CEO of BioSTL. "It's about our ecosystem (and uniting) as a community. So, having you all together here, and having this vast representation of partners is really important, and it's an important message that we can send to the NSF."
The Bottom Line: In 2022, the St. Louis region succeeded in winning a $25 million, highly competitive federal Build Back Better Regional Challenge grant, thanks to a collaborative proposal that incorporated input from across the bi-state St. Louis metro. This effort to win the NSF grant replicates that collaborative success. When we all work together, we all move farther.