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Registration now open: 10th annual BRAIN Initiative Conference

Please join us for the hybrid 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference on June 17-18, 2024 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville, MD.

Registration is now open for the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference! The theme this year puts a spotlight on a decade of BRAIN-funded science and innovation, and we look forward to celebrating the depth and breadth of our community

  • Neuroscience News

From the BRAIN Director: Funding neuroscience in an uncertain budget climate

A message to the community from Dr. John Ngai, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

NIMH issues notice of support to apply BRAIN Initiative technologies to understand mental health illnesses

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encourages the application of BRAIN Initiative tools and technologies toward a better understanding of neural circuits that underlie cognitive, social and affective processes in order to inform about circuit-based targets for prevention and treatment of mental illnesses. Applications are due through May 10, 2027.  

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

FlyWire is accepting submissions in its first data challenge

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.

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN at 10: A View from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke

The BRAIN Initiative is marking a milestone—10 years of advancing neuroscience and neurotechnology research by funding innovative projects. As part of a rotating series of blog posts, the Directors of the BRAIN Initiative-partnering Institutes and Centers share their voice and perspectives on the impact BRAIN has made on their respective missions—and vice versa. 

By Walter Koroshetz, MD, Director, NINDS

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Researcher spotlight: F32 recipient Dr. Emily Wright

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.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News

Neuroscience training workshops feature BRAIN-Initiative funded technologies

DataJoint and Neurodata Without Borders will host three exciting workshops that feature tools disseminated through the BRAIN Initiative U24 Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination. Applications for the workshops are now open.
  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

BRAIN Initiative Alliance Spring 2024 Toolmakers Newsletter

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.  
  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

February 2024 NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics and Multi-Council Working Group Meetings

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.
  • Neuroscience News

Now Open: 2024 BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest!

The BRAIN Initiative photo and video contest is now open through Monday, April 15, 2024.