The BRAIN Understanding Circuits program encompasses a family of "Integrated and Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Circuits" funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). These FOAs range from small or exploratory, targeted brain circuits projects with specific research deliverables (R34, R01) to large, team-research projects with exploratory aims (U01) or with extensive and elaborated goals and a 5-10 year horizon of discovery (U19).
Understanding Circuits
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative is an ambitious multi-agency effort aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. Specific goals for NIH contributions to the Initiative were formulated over a year-long planning process that culminated in the release of BRAIN 2025: A Scientific Vision, a seminal planning document produced by a working committee of the Advisory Council to the NIH Director.