The BRAIN Blog

Videocast will be available for the open sessions of the upcoming NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group on Thursday, January 30, 2020 and the Multi-Council Working Group on Friday, January 31, 2020.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of John J. Ngai, Ph.D., as director of the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai is expected to join NIH in March.

To learn more, please read the full NIH news release.

Does your research involve bioethics? If so, you may want to consider the new bioethics funding supplements. These administrative supplements can support BRAIN-funded scientists conducting neuroethics research or those who seek to integrate bioethics into their projects. Applications are due on March 20, 2020.

This week, a series of daily blog posts will highlight 28 new and reissued BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2020. This final post features five opportunities for clinical studies and human neuroscience research. These awards encourage researchers to harness the power of next-generation invasive neural devices, neuroimaging methods, and neuromodulation techniques to advance our knowledge about the brain and brain disorders.

Human Neuroscience and Clinical Studies

This week, a series of daily blog posts will highlight 28 new and reissued BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2020. Today’s post highlights four awards that support neural recording, modulation, and stimulation in animals and humans. These NOFOs promote the development, improvement, and understanding of novel methods for large-scale monitoring and manipulation of neural activity.

This week, a series of daily blog posts will highlight 28 new and reissued BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2020. The five awards featured today focus on brain mapping and tool development. The goal of these NOFOs is to accelerate brain cell census research and promote the development, validation, and use of novel tools designed to study cell types and circuits.

Cell Census Research

This week, a series of daily blog posts will highlight 28 new and reissued BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2020. Today’s post highlights four awards that support the use of integrative, novel methods to elucidate neural circuits. The goal of these NOFOs is to enhance our understanding of neural circuitry by funding individual and collaborative brain circuit projects.

This week, a series of daily blog posts will highlight 28 new and reissued BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for 2020. For the past five years BRAIN-funded scientists have developed astounding new technologies to study neural circuits, enabling a better understanding of the brain and complex disorders. Next year’s awards will accelerate the pace of neuroscience discovery by building upon this work and expanding the scope of the BRAIN Initiative. Today’s post focuses on data science, training, neuroethics, and small business opportunities.

The next application deadline for the BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) is February 10, 2020 (resubmission deadline is March 10, 2020).

BRAIN Initiative investigators can now offer feedback on a new NIH-wide data sharing policy that will likely impact ongoing and future neuroscience research. The draft NIH policy for data management and sharing is open for public comment until January 10, 2020.