Have you ever tried to be PI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator) in a grant proposal? Now you have the chance to do so if your academic supervisor happens to be a member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). Details via
http://www.ecnp.eu/emc.asp?pageId=1201 (next deadline Feb 28, 2008).

If you know of similar opportunities for young scientists to become PI, please post them here.