BRAIN Blog

Dr. Taylor Webb is a F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study non-invasive, focal treatments for the brain using ultrasound.

NIH-funded study in a small group of individuals shows preliminary results that could lead to new pain treatments. 

Back by popular demand, the BRAIN Initiative’s yearly Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest is open through Monday, April 24, 2023. You’re invited to submit your coolest, most interesting images and short videos today! 

BRAIN-funded researcher, Dr. Michael Greenberg, along with two collaborators, received the Lundbeck Foundation’s 2023 Brain Prize for ground-breaking discoveries on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity. 

Dr. Kyle Blum is a former F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study motor control and the nervous system. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period. 

Humans are complex beings, but our inner workings operate using basic biological processes shaped and repurposed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

A team of BRAIN researchers describe a newly developed technology used to record brain activity in freely moving humans, called Neuro-stack.  

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.

Highlights from this year’s BRAIN Initiative Alliance recap include BRAIN Initiative researchers participating in new collaborations, developing cutting-edge tools, and demonstrating exceptional talent as they aim to advance our understanding of the brain’s inner workings. 

Dr. Sumaira Zamurrad is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study neural circuits in Drosophila models. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period.