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Additional Receipt Dates Added for BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects – TargetedBCPP (R34)

Three new receipt dates have been added to this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO): November 6, 2019; July 1, 2020; and November 10, 2020.

This announcement provides a notice (NOT-NS-19-034) that three new receipt dates have been added to “BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects – TargetedBCPP (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)” (RFA-NS-18-014).

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Soliciting Applications for the BRAIN Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00)

The next application deadline for the BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) is June 12, 2019 (resubmission deadline is July 12, 2019).

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Fifth Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting Convenes Scientists and Stakeholders; Soliciting Comments for Draft Report from Advisory Committee to the NIH Director BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0

The fifth annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, held from April 11-13, 2019 in Washington, DC, convened approximately 1600 registrants. In tandem, the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0 previewed and has now released their draft report, which is open for public comment through May 15, 2019.

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN Publication Roundup – March 2019

Contributions of the basal ganglia to speech production … High-speed volumetric microscopy of freely-moving Drosophila larvae … Identifying functional neuron subclasses with specificity …

Differences in timing and direction of basal ganglia firing accompany speech production

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

NSF is Soliciting Applications for the Next Phase of Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)

The objective of the next phase of the NeuroNex Program at the National Science Foundation is the establishment of distributed, international research networks that build on existing global investments in neurotechnologies to address overarching questions in neuroscience.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN Initiative at LabRoots’ 7th Annual Neuroscience Virtual Conference on March 13-14, 2019

The virtual conference, featuring multiple NIH BRAIN speakers and BRAIN-funded investigators, addresses the role of the brain and nervous system at multiple levels of observation, from molecular to functional, and the neuroethical implications of this cutting-edge work.

  • Neuroscience News

February Meetings of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group and Multi-Council Working Group

Recent meetings of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) provided considerations of the neuroethical implications of sharing brain research data, an update from the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0, and updates on BRAIN’s scientific progress.

  • Neuroscience News

2019 BRAIN Initiative – Show Us Your BRAINS! Cool Picture & Video Contest

NIH is accepting submissions for artistic and eye-catching images and videos in the 2019 BRAIN Initiative Show Us Your BRAINS! Cool Picture & Video Contest.

  • Neuroscience News

The National Academy of Sciences Honors BRAIN Researchers and BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group Member

The National Academy of Sciences recently recognized Drs. Liqun Luo, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Eve Marder for their extraordinary scientific achievements. The awards will be presented on April 28, 2019, during the Academy’s 156th annual meeting.

  • Neuroscience News

Upcoming Meetings for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group and Neuroethics Working Group

Videocasts will be available for the open sessions of upcoming meetings on Monday, February 11, 2019, and Tuesday, February 12, 2019.

  • Neuroscience News