The NIH recently announced the 108 newly funded awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 for the NIH BRAIN Initiative®. The NIH will highlight these funded awards, funding opportunities, and other BRAIN-related endeavors, such as The BRAIN Initiative Alliance, at the upcoming, annual Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, CA (Nov. 12th-16th, 2016).
With the addition of 108 FY16 funded awards, the current total (FY14-FY16) of NIH-supported BRAIN Initiative research projects is 233, conducted by over 400 investigators across more than 140 performance sites in 13 countries.
The FY16 BRAIN-funded projects by topic, and the number of funded awards per topic, include:
- Large Scale Recording and Modulation (30)
- New Technologies/Optimization
- New Concepts & Early Stage Research
- Non-Invasive Neuromodulation (16)
- Foundations/Next-Generation Human Imaging (12)
- Next-Generation Human Invasive Devices (8)
- Tools for Cells and Circuits (9)
- Research Opportunities (7)
- Technology Sharing/Propagation (6)
- Theories, Models, Methods (20)
On Sunday, November 13th, at the upcoming annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA, the NIH will present a dynamic poster (#26.12SU) that will highlight scientific advancements, funding opportunities, and the myriad partnerships that constitute NIH’s contribution to the BRAIN Initiative.
Further, The BRAIN Initiative Alliance, which seeks to inform and engage the public and the scientific community about successes emerging from the BRAIN Initiative, as well as opportunities for further discovery, is launching a new, interactive, website. Additionally, the group will host a satellite event on November 14th, BRAIN Initiative “TAD Talks:” Technology Accelerating Discovery. The event is being co-organized by Dr. Frances Jensen (UPenn) and Dr. Jane Roskams (UBC), and is sponsored via in-kind support by The BRAIN Initiative Alliance (including NIH), with a reception sponsored by The Kavli Foundation. The agenda includes exciting, brief talks from BRAIN Initiative investigators and a panel discussion about the unique opportunities the Initiative provides for the broader scientific community. This is a public event that does not require registration to the Society for Neuroscience meeting.