The BRAIN Blog

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.  

This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) will support the creation of Molecular Payloads Centers with a first application due date of June 28, 2023, and the earliest start date of April 2024. 

Register now for the first NIH Annual Investigator meeting on Functional Neural Circuits which will take place on September 29, 2022. This virtual meeting will focus on pre-clinical functional neural circuit analysis of interoception. 

The NIH BRAIN Initiative announces awards for two-large scale projects that aim to transform neuroscience research and enhance our understanding of the human brain.  

A virtual National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) workshop on September 22 and September 23, 2022 brings together experts to discuss scientific, technical, ethical, and regulatory issues around brain-machine interfaces.

Dr. Preeya Khanna is a F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study motor control restoration after stroke. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period.