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NIH BRAIN Initiative Launches Collaborative Agreements With Canadian and Australian Neuroscience Organizations

Letters of Agreement pave way for collaboration between NIH BRAIN Initiative and neuroscientists in Canada and Australia.

  • Neuroscience News

New Article in Science Discusses BRAIN Initiative’s Goal of Creating Brain Cell Census

The article outlines the benefits and challenges of classifying neurons and highlights new genetic techniques for defining cell types.

In the August 7 issue of Science, science writer Emily Underwood elegantly lays out the historical background—dating back to the research of Santiago Ramón y Cajal—underlying The BRAIN Initiative’s goal of classifying the enormous variety of cells in the brain. Underwood goes on to spotlight a handful of new genetic techniques for cataloging neuronal diversity.

  • Neuroscience News

July Meeting of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group

A meeting of the Multi-Council Working Group for the NIH BRAIN Initiative provided insights into funding the second wave of BRAIN awardees, explored foundation efforts and potential collaborations, approved a neuroethics workgroup, and contemplated future ventures for the initiative.

  • Neuroscience News

NSF announces FY 15 awards in support of BRAIN Initiative

NSF issues $13.1 million for 16 new multidisciplinary awards to support BRAIN Initiative

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN Initiative Partner Inscopix Named “Technology Pioneer” By World Economic Forum

Microscope maker Inscopix receives prestigious designation by World Economic Forum

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN Investigators Produce Automated Technique Allowing High Resolution Reconstruction of Mouse Cortex

Dr. Jeff Lichtman and colleagues published a paper in Cell outlining a series of techniques for sectioning, reconstructing, and analyzing a discrete volume of mouse brain tissue with nanometer resolution. Advancing the automated collection and processing of cortical tissue at the nanometer scale, this project stems from a collaborative, six-year effort of multiple researchers currently supported by The BRAIN Initiative®.

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

BRAIN Initiative grantee receives prestigious biomedical optics and imaging award

NIH BRAIN Initiative grantee Lihong Wang receives award for the development of innovative brain imaging technology. 

  • Neuroscience News

Realizing BRAIN Initiative Potential at Two Years

In separate publications, co-chair of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director for The BRAIN InitiativeSM, Dr. Cori Bargmann, and the current Society for Neuroscience president, Dr. Steve Hyman, outline how projects funded through the Initiative are already paying off only two years following the bold cross-disciplinary effort’s launch.

  • Neuroscience News

Early BRAIN Breakthroughs

National Institute of Mental Health Director and co-chair of NIH BRAIN Initiative
Multi-Council Working Group, reviews several scientific advancements stemming from the first year NIH-funded projects.

  • Neuroscience News

Calling all statisticians!

Data science – the extraction of knowledge from large volumes of unstructured data – has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of health and disease. Yet biomedical science faces a shortage of skilled researchers who have facility with computational ideas and paradigms.

  • Neuroscience News