DataJoint and Neurodata Without Borders will host three exciting workshops that feature tools disseminated through the BRAIN Initiative U24 Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination. Applications for the workshops are now open.
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Neuroscience training workshops feature BRAIN-Initiative funded technologies
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
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February 2024 NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics and Multi-Council Working Group Meetings
Last month, members of the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) discussed potentially unique ethical considerations related to pediatric neurostimulation and emerging opportunities in neuroethics research, as well as updates from NEWG and MCWG members.
- Neuroscience News
Now Open: 2024 BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest!
The BRAIN Initiative photo and video contest is now open through Monday, April 15, 2024.
Deep brain stimulation tested as a means of restoring lost function following traumatic brain injury
A BRAIN-funded study explores a novel approach of applying deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat the symptoms associated with traumatic brain injury. A second BRAIN-funded study examines the continued integration and understanding about the ethical implications of technologies like DBS.
- Neuroscience Research and Technology
BRAIN issues funding opportunities to support brain cell type-selective access reagent engineering and dissemination facilities for molecular genetic technologies
These notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) will support engineering and dissemination facilities to scale up and distribute brain cell type-specific reagents as part of the BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium for Precision Brain Cell Access.
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
From the BRAIN Director: Human-Centered BRAIN Neurotechnology Gives Patients a Voice
Late in 2023, two research groups accomplished an amazing feat. Using a brain–computer interface, they provided speech to two individuals who had lost the ability to communicate due to paralysis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Both studies described “brain-to-speech” neuroprostheses capable of converting a person’s thoughts into speech at over 60 words per minute with an error rate of 25%, albeit with vocabularies of limited sizes.
- Neuroscience Research and Technology
Now accepting applications: NIH summer program to explore commercial potential of BRAIN Initiative Innovations
The Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation - Education (eC3i) Program is designed to help investigators developing innovative technology, through their BRAIN Initiative funding, understand the commercial potential of their tools.
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
- Neuroscience News
- Neuroscience Research and Technology
Notice of funding opportunity reissued: Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (F99/K00) Award
The NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award has been reissued and an accompanying open house webinar resource is readily available.
- Neuroscience Grants and Funding
- Neuroscience Research and Technology
Researcher spotlight: F32 recipient Dr. Drew Davidson
Dr. Drew Davidson is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to investigate context-dependent behaviors in animals. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoctoral training period.
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- Neuroscience News
Labroots Neuroscience Virtual Event Series features NIH BRAIN Initiative track focused on the brain-behavior connection
Labroots will live-stream its annual neuroscience virtual event series on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Tune in to a special NIH BRAIN Initiative track that will explore our understanding of how the brain gives rise to complex behavior.
- Neuroscience Research and Technology