The BRAIN Blog

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. 

Dr. Kyle Blum is a former F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study motor control and the nervous system. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period. 

Humans are complex beings, but our inner workings operate using basic biological processes shaped and repurposed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. By providing critical insights into these processes, decades of research using model organisms has been central to progress toward understanding and treating a range of human diseases – including neurologic, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative conditions.

The Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation Education Program is designed to help current BRAIN-funded investigators from a research institution or early-stage start-up better understand how to take their innovative technology and apply it to an unmet market need.   

A team of BRAIN researchers describe a newly developed technology used to record brain activity in freely moving humans, called Neuro-stack.  

The NIH is seeking information from the biomedical research community regarding the current state of postdoctoral research training and career progression. The deadline to submit responses is April 14, 2023. 

The free, online-only Labroots event will be broadcast live on March 8, 2023, starting at 5:30 a.m. PST and features concurrent tracks on artificial neural networks, neurodegenerative disease research, and psychiatric disease markers. 

Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter. These newsletters spotlight BRAIN Initiative investigators with tools, technologies, or theories ready for distribution to the research community to advance neurotechnology.   

Last month, members of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) discussed health-related technologies that affect the brain, BRAIN updates, neural mechanisms of spatial attention, and more.  

On January 24, 2023, the BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) held its 15th meeting. The NEWG is a group of experts in neuroethics and neuroscience that ensures the integration of neuroethics in NIH BRAIN Initiative activities. 

Registration is now open for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting which will take place June 12-13, 2023 in Bethesda, MD and online. 

Registration is now open for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting: Open Science, New Tools. Join us on Monday, June 12 and Tuesday, June 13 and submit your scientific proposals today! 

Register and submit proposals here!