Today the National Institutes of Health announces two transformative projects supported by the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative: The BRAIN Initiative® Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) and the
The BRAIN Initiative supports the development of a diverse portfolio of biomolecular tools and emphasizes their rapid and broad dissemination to the research community. Browse the Addgene collection of plasmids created with support from the BRAIN Initiative.
After opening remarks from Hui Cai, Program Chair and Vice President at WuXi AppTec, and Minzhang Chen, Co-CEO at WuXi AppTec, an impressive panel took the stage to reflect on the state of innovation and highlight the healthcare industry’s notable advances in tackling innovation challenges to build an impactful future for patients.
The purpose of the The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Fellows (F32) program is to enhance the research training of promising postdoctorates, early in their postdoctoral training period, who have the potential to become productive investigators in research areas that will advance the goals of The BRAIN Initiative®. Applications are encouraged in any research area that is aligned with The BRAIN Initiative®, including neuroethics.
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of 10 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health that make up the NIH BRAIN Initiative, is organizing a workshop to share information about the NIH BRAIN initiative program, provide an overview of various funding opportunities, and provide guidance to potential NIDCD applicants. The workshop will feature presentations from the NIH BRAIN initiative Director and NIDCD staff as well as several BRAIN initiative awardees in the chemical senses space.
New research funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative sheds light on how we organize and store memories
Please note that the BRAIN K99/R00 receipt dates differ from the Parent K99/R00 standard receipt dates.
Please note that the BRAIN K99/R00 receipt dates differ from the Parent K99/R00 standard receipt dates.
Discovery could immediately suggest new avenues for drug development
In a new report published Tuesday in Nature Communications, Chang’s team has pushed that scientific milestone even further. By tweaking their system to recognize individual letters of the NATO phonetic alphabet — Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc. — the device was able to decode more than 1,100 words from the electrical activity inside Pancho’s brain as he silently tried saying the letters.