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New report from International Brain Initiative workshop outlines future of collaborative science

European Parliament hosted leaders from the International Brain Initiative this fall to discuss strategies that foster collaborative science across borders. A newly published report summarizes key takeaways.

Leaders from the International Brain Initiative (IBI)—of which BRAIN is a part—recently convened to discuss their efforts toward building neuroscience, neuroethics, data policy, and dissemination collaborations on a global scale.

  • Neuroscience News

NIH-funded study could help improve deep brain stimulation therapy for OCD

Recent BRAIN Initiative-funded study finds promise in the use of adaptive deep brain stimulation for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2022: Technology dissemination and tools for studying cells and circuits

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post features NOFOs for establishing reagent production facilities and tool development and dissemination.

The NOFOs below aim to advance our ability to study specific cell types and circuits by developing, validating, and disseminating cutting-edge technologies to the broader neuroscience community. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Human neuroscience and clinical studies

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. This post features funding opportunities to develop, test, and utilize next-gen neural devices to advance our knowledge about the brain.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Neural recording, modulation, and stimulation

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post summarizes NOFOs for neural recording, modulation, and stimulation tool development in animals and humans.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Data science and standardization

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post features NOFOs for data analysis and archival approaches.>

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Notices of Funding Opportunities for 2022: Training, neuroethics, and small business

This week, a series of blog posts will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2022. Today’s post focuses on awards for training, equity, and inclusion; neuroethics; and small business.

Welcome to our annual NOFO week! Each day, we’ll summarize BRAIN funding opportunities for fiscal year 2022. While this series will reflect active BRAIN funding opportunities, keep an eye on this blog space as additional funding becomes available.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN issues notices for planned funding opportunities to map connectivity across scales through BRAIN CONNECTS

These notices support the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales Network (BRAIN CONNECTS), which aims to coordinate the development of research capacity and technical capabilities to generate wiring diagrams that span entire brain regions across multiple scales. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Upcoming UNITE listening sessions to discuss racial and ethnic equity among NIH stakeholders

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.

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN issues notice of supplements to embed ethicists into BRAIN Initiative research

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

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding