The BRAIN Blog

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.   

The 2022 Next Generation of NIH BRAIN Initiative Leaders: Making the Transition Workshop was held on Wednesday, October 26 and provided early-stage investigators with a place to openly discuss and ask questions about future career opportunities.  

This funding opportunity, with the next due date of February 14, 2023, is part of the Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program. It will support the development of research projects aimed at advancing approaches for high-resolution synchronized capture of complex behavioral and environmental data and development of computational models of behavior as a complex dynamic system. 

Please join us in-person or online for exciting BRAIN-relevant events at this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. 

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will be hosting its 51st annual conference in person from November 12-16, 2022, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. There will also be select virtual components including posters, up to 24 lectures, and a sampling of symposia/mini symposia.  

The BRAIN Initiative® remains in a unique position to lead cross-cutting and accelerated discovery in neuroscience across a diverse network of institutions and organizations, laboratories, researcher fields, and geographic locations.

Applications for this funding opportunity are due on December 15, 2022, with subsequent application due dates on September 12, 2023, and September 12, 2024, and require a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). 

In my daily discussions with the BRAIN community, I hear the tension between small and big science: a proxy argument for exploring biology versus building tools. Individual labs do creative biology, so why fund large teams that churn out lots of data but aren’t testing hypotheses?

My answer is simple: Diseases don’t care about funding mechanisms.

The Stanford Program for Integrated Neuroscience Technologies (SPrINT) is funding pilot projects focused on understanding brain function. Applications are due December 9, 2022. 

The Stanford Program for Integrated Neuroscience Technologies (SPrINT) is funding pilot projects focused on understanding brain function. Applications are due December 9, 2022. 

The solicitation for pre-proposals is due October 24, 2022 and is seeking collaborative projects aimed at developing emerging neurotechnologies into commercially viable, clinically focused solutions for disorders of the nervous system. 

Dr. Judy Illes, Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Musqueam Traditional Territory, Canada) recently received the Alvin J. Thompson Award from the Board of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR) for a research partnership on early onset Alzheimer Disease with the Tahltan First Nation.