Cori Bargmann talks with The New York Times about her research and the goals of the BRAIN Initiative
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NIH BRAIN Initiative Releases Funding Announcements to Facilitate Private-Public Partnerships for Human Brain Research
The NIH BRAIN Initiative has released three notices of funding opportunities for partnerships between clinical investigators and manufacturers of the latest-generation implantable stimulating and/or recording devices for clinical neuroscience research in humans.
A central focus of the BRAIN Initiative is development of technologies for recording and modulating neural circuits. Such technologies may be incorporated into devices to be implanted in the brain or spinal cord that can, for example, treat Parkinson’s disease or restore movement in the case of spinal cord injury.
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
New Notices of Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2016: Methods of Analysis of Complex Data, Short Courses, and Technology Sharing
NIH has released three new exciting Requests for Applications (RFAs) for the BRAIN Initiative, and we are encouraging researchers from across the physical and life sciences, as well as engineering and statistical disciplines, to submit applications to these and future open BRAIN Initiative funding opportunities.
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
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
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.
Lihong Wang, biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis and NIH BRAIN Initiative grantee, was awarded the 2015 Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award earlier this year by SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics) for his pioneering work towards the development and application of new imaging techniques.
- 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
Last reviewed on July 02, 2025