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Virtual workshop to address methodological opportunities and gaps for measuring how the brain changes throughout life

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to organize the “The Brain Across the Lifespan” online workshop on April 18 and 19. 

  • Neuroscience News

The Office of the BRAIN Director is hiring! Apply to lead bioinformatics and data integration position

The Office of the BRAIN Director in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke seeks to recruit a senior bioinformatics scientist with a well-established record of exceptional scientific and technical expertise in data science and data integration.  

  • Neuroscience News

Upcoming informational webinar on the NIH BRAIN initiative program and funding opportunities

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of 10 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health that make up the NIH BRAIN Initiative, is organizing a webinar for potential BRAIN applicants.   

  • Neuroscience News

Deadline extended to April 15 for applications to NIH innovation program to commercialize biomedical technologies

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.  

  • Neuroscience News

From the BRAIN Director: The Great Unknown

Imagine looking up on a clear night and instead of seeing the giant celestial smear that is the Milky Way, visualizing every individual star as a crystal-clear sparkle of light. That was my reaction 8 years ago when I laid eyes on the first data to emerge from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium.

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Congress passes budget bill: NIH BRAIN Initiative receives $60M in additional funds for fiscal year 2022

A message to the community from Dr. John Ngai, Director of the NIH BRAIN Initiative. 

Dear BRAIN Community, 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Addgene launches a new community resource to share recombinant antibodies for neuroscientists

BRAIN-funded Addgene catalog to disseminate antibodies for neuroscience research based on values of transparency, reproducibility, and community building.  

  • Neuroscience News

Five BRAIN Initiative scientists elected as AAAS Honorary Fellows

The prestigious AAAS Honorary Fellow class of 2021 includes five scientists whose research is supported by the BRAIN Initiative: Drs. Guoping Feng, Viviana Gradinaru, Susan Shore, Bing Ye, and Karen Zito. 

  • Neuroscience News

NIH issues Notice of Special Interest for supplements to promote research career re-entry and re-integration

The administrative supplements provided under this program may be for either part-time or full-time (equivalent to 12 person-months) support for the candidate.  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

NIH innovation education program provides tools for taking new technologies to the marketplace

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.  

  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology