BRAIN Blog

The BRAIN-funded researchers Drs. Vivian Gradinaru, Bin He, Elizabeth Hillman, and Xiaowei Zhuang will be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors 2022 Fellow class, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.  

Annual article features the winners of the 2022 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest and recognizes the researchers behind the images 

Dr. Mai-Anh Vu is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to investigate the patterns of dopamine release during behavior. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period. 

The BRAIN Initiative® remains in a unique position to lead cross-cutting and accelerated discovery in neuroscience across a diverse network of institutions and organizations, laboratories, researcher fields, and geographic locations.

Dr. Judy Illes, Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Musqueam Traditional Territory, Canada) recently received the Alvin J.

Dr. Preeya Khanna is a F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study motor control restoration after stroke.

Dr. Kate MacDuffie is an F32 award recipient whose research focuses on the neuroethical use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict autism spectrum disorder in infancy.

Dr. Michael Young is an F32 award recipient who is using the funding opportunity to help further develop his career and research on neurotechnologies and neuroethics.