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From the BRAIN Initiative Alliance: A look back on the BRAIN Initiative in 2023 (and what’s coming in 2024!)

The BRAIN Initiative Alliance (BIA) provided a recap of 2023 achievements by BRAIN Initiative investigators and partners and a look ahead to upcoming events and opportunities to look out for in 2024.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Upcoming webinar will explore publication highlights of whole mouse brain atlas

Register to attend a webinar on February 1, 2024, designed to share a new collection of papers reporting the first complete cell type atlas of a mammalian brain.
  • Neuroscience News

Notices of funding opportunities for 2024: Data science, informatics, and dissemination

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2024. Today’s post features funding opportunities for data science, informatics infrastructure, and dissemination.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2024: Training, inclusion, and equity

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2024. Today’s post features funding opportunities for training, inclusion, and equity.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2024: Bioethics and systems neuroscience

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2024. Today’s post features funding opportunities for administrative supplements to support research on bioethical issues and the BRAIN Initiative’s Systems Neuroscience. 
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2024: Neural recording and modulation

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2024. Today’s post features funding opportunities for neural recording and modulation.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Notices of funding opportunities for 2024: Transformative projects and tools and technologies for cells and circuits

This week, we will highlight BRAIN Initiative notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for fiscal year 2024. Today’s post features funding opportunities for BRAIN Initiative transformative projects and tools and technologies for cells and circuits.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

NIH launches TARGETED Challenge Phase 2

The National Institutes of Health is seeking applications for the second phase of the Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. The challenge aims to improve the state of technology to include a programmable delivery system for gene editing and solutions for crossing the blood-brain barrier.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News

Neuroscience Training Workshops featuring BRAIN-Initiative Funded Technologies

The Allen Institute will host three workshops featuring tools being disseminated through the BRAIN Initiative U24 Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination. Applications for the workshops are now open.

The Allen Institute, a BRAIN Initiative Alliance (BIA) partner, is hosting the following workshops this year:

Describe Your Neurons Like the Allen Institute
April 8-10, 2024

  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Register for upcoming BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network virtual workshop

The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the development, automation, and use of single-cell genomics data and cell atlas data to advance neuroscience and brain disease research. Registration is now open! 

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology