Cooperative Agreements
Activity Codes
BRAIN Initiative: Marmoset Coordination Center (U24 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications to create a Marmoset Coordination Center. The awardee will be responsible for two separate but related activities. The first activity will be to become the repository for genomic, pedigree, and event records (date of birth, medical, reproductive history) for captive marmosets.
BRAIN Initiative: Marmoset Colonies for Neuroscience Research (U24 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has emerged as a promising nonhuman primate model system to understand the primate brain. This has come about both from the realization that the behavior of the common marmoset is similar in some ways to human behavior and from recent demonstration of germline transmission of exogenous genetic information.
Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub
In recent years, the NIH has awarded over $850M annually to the numerous research institutions and hospitals within the Texas Medical Center (TMC; Houston, TX), producing ever-increasing numbers of biomedical discov- eries.
Development of Quantum Magnetic Tunneling Junction Sensor Arrays for Brain Magnetoencephalography (MEG) under Natural Settings
Project Summary The long-term objective of this project is to develop a revolutionary quantum mechanical solid-state magnetometer designed to non-invasively detect femtoTesla (fT) scale magnetic fields derived from the brain’s electrical activities during natural human experiences. The project has been designed to address the vision of the
A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy
Abstract Advances in non-invasive monitoring of human brain function under normal and pathological conditions will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in health and disease, and lead to the development of devices available for everyday use, with applications such as monitoring patients with brain injuries or neurodegenerative disease, studies of brain function in natural environments, and brain-computer interfaces.
Scientific and Public Outreach of Cell Type Taxonomies (SPOCTT) Initiative
Project Summary Single cell transcriptomics has transformed the field of brain cell type classification, allowing simultaneous measurement of enough molecular features from enough cells to categorize neurons quantitively and with high conservation across brain areas and species.
1 mm resolution single-photon spectral imaging of the brain
Abstract: In this proposed research project, we seek to develop an advanced brain SPECT system that offers a unique hyperspectral imaging capability substantiated by an excellent energy resolution (e.g.,
NexGen 7T MRI scanner for mesoscale brain imaging: Integration and Dissemination
SUMMARY The "NexGen" 7 Tesla MRI scanner at UC Berkeley is a unique resource that we wish to make available for neuroscience collaborations across the globe. It was specifically designed for extremely high resolution structural and functional neuroimaging at the scale of cortical laminae and columnar neurocircuit organization ("meso-scale"). To achieve this, the NexGen scanner builds upon existing standard 7T scanners and integrates a number of technological advances, creating synergistic improvements and gains in speed, resolution and signal.