The BRAIN Blog

A series of 14 virtual listening sessions from December 1, 2021 through February 1, 2022 organized by the National Institute of Health’s UNITE Initiative to listen and learn from key stakeholders at all levels of the biomedical research community.

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) announces the availability of administrative supplements to integrate neuroethics perspectives and approaches into current BRAIN-funded projects.

The National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative continues to grow as reflected by more than 200 new research projects funded in fiscal year 2021, totaling over $540 million.

Please join us online for exciting BRAIN-relevant events at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting occurring virtually November 8-11, 2021.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will be hosting a virtual conference this year on November 8-11, 2021, celebrating its 50^th annual meeting. As always, there are several exciting BRAIN Initiative happenings slated to occur at the conference.

Curious about the new Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) funding opportunity? Join us later today or on November 12, 2021 to learn more.

The workshop on October 26 convened BRAIN-supported trainees at various career stages, and presented perspectives from junior faculty, senior faculty, and NIH program officials.

The BRAIN-funded scientists Drs. Polina Anikeeva, Rui Costa, Josh Huang, Mikhail Shapiro, Chethan Pandarinath and Todd Roberts were among the recipients of these prestigious awards.

Tune in this Wednesday, October 27 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT to view a webinar hosted by the Allen Institute about recent research findings from the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN).  

The 2021 class of new National Academy of Medicine (NAM) members includes Drs. Kafui Dzirasa, Zhigang He, and Feng Zhang, scientists who have been supported by BRAIN Initiative funds.

A recent virtual workshop hosted by the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) brought together representatives from the International Brain Initiative (IBI) to discuss approaches to shaping the future of international neuroscience collaborations.