Upcoming NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group meeting
Please join us for the next virtual NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group meeting on May 14, 2024. Videocast will be available for the open session.
Please join us for the next virtual NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group meeting on May 14, 2024. Videocast will be available for the open session.
Please join us on June 17-18 at the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference to hear our featured plenary speakers and panel share their expertise and insights with conference attendees.
The 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation is next month! If you haven’t registered for this hybrid event, you still have time to join us. In-person registration closes on May 31, 2024.
Register on the event website today!
A message to the community from Dr. John Ngai, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative.
When the first grants from the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative, or The BRAIN Initiative®, were issued in 2014, the entire neuroscience field came alive with this new, innovative way to advance cutting-edge science and novel neurotechnologies.
FlyWire, a BRAIN-funded project, is hosting a challenge to optimize the grouping of visual neurons within clusters, known as columns, in the right optic lobe of the Drosophila brain.
Dr. Emily Wright is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to investigate how stress affects neurotransmitter release. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoctoral training period.
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’s Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) discussed potentially unique ethical considerations related to pediatric neurostimulation and emerging opportunities in neuroethics research, as well as updates from NEWG and MCWG members.
The Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation - Education (eC3i) Program is designed to help investigators developing innovative technology, through their BRAIN Initiative funding, understand the commercial potential of their tools.
Dr. Drew Davidson is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to investigate context-dependent behaviors in animals. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoctoral training period.
Please join us for two virtual NIH BRAIN Initiative meetings on Monday, February 12 and Tuesday, February 13. Videocast will be available for the open meeting sessions.
Neuroethics Working Group Meeting—Monday, February 12, 2024