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Public voting for the 2023 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest is now open

Help us select the winners for this year’s contest by casting your vote through June 2!

Each year, we invite all those engaged with or interested in the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative, or The BRAIN Initiative®, regardless of career stage, to submit their most fantastic, artistic, and eye-catching images or short videos of the brain to the Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest.  

  • Neuroscience News

NIH announces prize competition for multi-phase TARGETED Challenges

The NIH seeks applicants for Phase 1 of the Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. The competition aims to improve the current state of in vivo delivery technologies for genome editors into somatic cells. Learn more about the program in the upcoming informational webinar outlined below.  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Meet the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting’s three plenary speakers

Please join us on June 12-13 at the BRAIN Initiative’s 9th Annual Meeting and hear from our three featured plenary speakers as they share their expertise and insights with the BRAIN research community. If you haven’t registered already, please join us virtually, as in-person registration has closed.

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN signs on to Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ENDURE) program

The NIH BRAIN Initiative and NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research intend to reissue funding for a research program for neuroscience-focused undergraduates from diverse backgrounds. This funding opportunity is expected to be published in August 2023. 

  • Neuroscience News

NIH issues new funding opportunity to establish Data Coordination and Artificial Intelligence Center for the BRAIN Initiative

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support a single award to a multidisciplinary team to create the Data Coordination and Artificial Intelligence Center (DCAIC). DCAIC will act as a data management and sharing hub for Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) supported projects.  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN to host workshop on sensor technologies to improve understanding of complex behavior

This hybrid workshop, taking place on May 2-3, will focus on sensor technologies to improve understanding of behavior in health and disease. 

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN to fund proposals through NIH Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) program

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support scientific research and activities focused on enhancing diversity in biomedical research. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Submit your images and videos to the Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest

Back by popular demand, the BRAIN Initiative’s yearly Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest is open through Monday, April 24, 2023. You’re invited to submit your coolest, most interesting images and short videos today! 

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

BRAIN Initiative to support NIH Common Fund Notice of Upcoming Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge

The NIH Common Fund intends to publish a prize competition announcement to solicit entries for a multi-phase challenge to facilitate in vivo delivery technologies for gene editors. The NIH BRAIN Initiative will join as a contributor with other NIH-affiliated organizations. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN Initiative researcher Michael Greenberg awarded The Brain Prize 2023

BRAIN-funded researcher, Dr. Michael Greenberg, along with two collaborators, received the Lundbeck Foundation’s 2023 Brain Prize for ground-breaking discoveries on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity. 

  • Neuroscience News