Videocast will be available for the open session of the upcoming BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) meeting on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
The BRAIN Blog
Soliciting Comments on BRAIN’s Strategic Plan and Draft Neuroethics Roadmap
Initial thoughts on BRAIN’s strategic plan from the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0 are open for public comment through May 15, 2019. In parallel, a draft Neuroethics Roadmap from the BRAIN Neuroethics Subgroup is now open for public comment through May 20, 2019.
- Neuroscience News
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