Explore BRAIN Research

• Data Science and Informatics

  Supporting the advancement of data science research, promoting effective data sharing and reuse, and building the informatics infrastructure needed to effectively archive, integrate, interpret, and visualize data across all areas of BRAIN Initiative research. 

• Dissemination

  Supporting projects that focus on dissemination of validated tools and resources for basic, translational, or clinical research in BRAIN Initiative-relevant areas. 

• Human Neuroscience

  Supporting human research studies that use advanced technologies to investigate the structure, function, and connectivity of the human brain. 

• Neural Recording and Modulation

  Supporting the development and optimization of new tools and technologies for modulation and recording of cellular or near cellular resolution signals of the central nervous system and the biology and biophysics underlying those technologies. 

• Neuroethics

  Supporting neuroethics research projects that examine the ethical and societal implications of BRAIN-funded tools and technologies.  

• Neuroimaging Technologies Across Scales

  Supporting new imaging technologies for the study of function and connectivity varying in resolution from synapses to the whole brain. 

• Systems Neuroscience

  Supporting research that explores how circuit activity gives rise to mental experience and behavior using innovative and methodologically integrated approaches. 

• Tools and Technologies for Brain Cells and Circuits

  ​​​​​​Supporting efforts to define, catalogue, map, access, and characterize the diverse cell types and their functions in the brain across species. 

• Training

  Supporting the development of early-stage investigators and initiatives to enhance the biomedical workforce. 

• Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization Program