The BRAIN Blog

Humans are complex beings, but our inner workings operate using basic biological processes shaped and repurposed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. By providing critical insights into these processes, decades of research using model organisms has been central to progress toward understanding and treating a range of human diseases – including neurologic, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative conditions.

The Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation Education Program is designed to help current BRAIN-funded investigators from a research institution or early-stage start-up better understand how to take their innovative technology and apply it to an unmet market need.   

A team of BRAIN researchers describe a newly developed technology used to record brain activity in freely moving humans, called Neuro-stack.  

The free, online-only Labroots event will be broadcast live on March 8, 2023, starting at 5:30 a.m. PST and features concurrent tracks on artificial neural networks, neurodegenerative disease research, and psychiatric disease markers. 

Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter. These newsletters spotlight BRAIN Initiative investigators with tools, technologies, or theories ready for distribution to the research community to advance neurotechnology.   

Last month, members of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) discussed health-related technologies that affect the brain, BRAIN updates, neural mechanisms of spatial attention, and more.  

Registration is now open for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting which will take place June 12-13, 2023 in Bethesda, MD and online. 

Registration is now open for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting: Open Science, New Tools. Join us on Monday, June 12 and Tuesday, June 13 and submit your scientific proposals today! 

Register and submit proposals here! 

BRAIN Notice of Special Interest (NOSI), which aims to support the dissemination of promising technologies and resources generated from BRAIN awards, fostering collaborations, and integrating these research innovations into research practice, will be closed on February 28, 2023.

The BRAIN Initiative will host its 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting as a hybrid event on June 12-13, 2023 in Bethesda, MD and online. 

Join us on June 12-13, 2023 for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting and be a part of a growing, dynamic, and collaborative BRAIN research community.  

Visit the website today! 

What will you find now?  

• Background information on the meeting 

• A preliminary agenda 

Highlights from this year’s BRAIN Initiative Alliance recap include BRAIN Initiative researchers participating in new collaborations, developing cutting-edge tools, and demonstrating exceptional talent as they aim to advance our understanding of the brain’s inner workings.