Cal-BRAIN (the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience) has announced grantees for its inaugural round of funding.
Cal-BRAIN (the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience) has selected 16 projects to receive inaugural seed grant awards of $120,000 each.
The funded projects will be carried out at 12 universities throughout California, including 9 University of California (UC) campuses, Caltech, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California. One project will be conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The projects will seek to measure four different modes of the brain’s activity: electrical, neurochemical, metabolic and gene expression. The technological strategies will exploit advances in microscopy, brain imaging, nanotechnology sensors, and neural prosthetics.
Created in June 2014, Cal-BRAIN is California’s complement to the federal BRAIN Initiative announced by President Obama in April 2013. With an initial investment of $2 million per year, Cal-BRAIN’s research activities will be organized by UC San Diego and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.