The BRAIN Blog

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks applications to assemble diverse, integrated, multi-disciplinary teams to conduct exploratory research and planning activities using intracranial surgical procedures in human neuroscience. The next application due date is September 22, 2023. 

The 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting will take place on June 12-13, 2023. Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, shares what’s to come in his newest Director’s Message. 

Please join us on June 12-13 at the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting for our six symposium sessions to hear research insights and developments happening within the BRAIN research community.  

Dr. Taylor Webb is a F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study non-invasive, focal treatments for the brain using ultrasound. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoctoral training period.

The NIH BRAIN Initiative offers several funding opportunities to support research training of postdoctoral fellows.

NIH-funded study in a small group of individuals shows preliminary results that could lead to new pain treatments. 

Please join us for the next virtual NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group meeting on May 24, 2023. Videocast will be available for the open meeting session. 

Help us select the winners for this year’s contest by casting your vote through June 2!

Each year, we invite all those engaged with or interested in the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative, or The BRAIN Initiative®, regardless of career stage, to submit their most fantastic, artistic, and eye-catching images or short videos of the brain to the Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest.  

The NIH seeks applicants for Phase 1 of the Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. The competition aims to improve the current state of in vivo delivery technologies for genome editors into somatic cells. Learn more about the program in the upcoming informational webinar outlined below.