BRAIN Blog

In separate publications, co-chair of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director for The BRAIN InitiativeSM, Dr. Cori Bargmann, and the current Society for Neuroscience president, Dr.

August 01, 2015

National Institute of Mental Health Director and co-chair of NIH BRAIN Initiative
Multi-Council Working Group, reviews several scientific advancements stemming from the first year NIH-funded projects.

June 23, 2015

Data science – the extraction of knowledge from large volumes of unstructured data – has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of health and disease.

June 19, 2015

In response to the BRAIN Initiative, UC Davis awards $1 million in grants to seed innovative brain research.

June 16, 2015

Cal-BRAIN (the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience) has announced grantees for its inaugural round of funding.

June 09, 2015

BRAIN Initiative grantee Dr. Carlos Brody co-authored a Nature paper that explores how distinct neural circuits contribute to the brain’s process of making decisions based on weighing evidence.

June 04, 2015

The NIH Blueprint seeks feedback from the scientific community about how to best continue to support neuroscience research over the next 10 years.

May 14, 2015

BRAIN Initiative awardee and Multi-Council Working Group member, Dr. David Tank, alongside three collaborators, recently received the European Brain Research Foundation “Brain Prize” for his contributions toward the development of two-photon microscopy.

May 01, 2015

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, will receive the 2015 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, in honor of his pioneering role in the development of …

April 23, 2015