Project Grant 2526948
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support research to investigate how the three-dimensional organization of the human genome controls gene expression and cell identity in the brain. The $300,000 award, spanning August 2025 to July 2027, will fund the development of new AI-powered tools to reconstruct 3D chromosome structure from single-cell experiments and simulate how changes in genome structure affect...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund the acquisition of a new high-performance computing (HPC) resource at Brown University to support advanced computational neuroscience research and training. The HPC cluster, which will be hosted and managed by Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization, will expand research capabilities within the university's Carney Institute for Brain Science. It...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $1,958,603.00 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to explore whether lab-grown human brain tissues, known as brain organoids, can perform computations similar to artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The award, titled "EFRI BEGIN OI: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR SCALABLE BIOCOMPUTING," will fund the development of tools that allow these brain organoids to...
- This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of California Irvine from October 2022 through September 2026. The university will develop hydrogel-based bioengineering technologies to reproducibly generate distinct spatial organization and cellular diversity within cortical organoids, mimicking the development of different brain regions. Researchers will leverage expertise...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Chemistry of Life Processes Program awarded a Project Grant of $698,869 to the University of Michigan to develop new molecular tools to study brain signaling-specific neuronal populations. The goal is to create a new class of reporters that can quickly label neurons activated during specific behaviors, enabling further study of the neural circuits underlying cognitive functions and behaviors. This 5-year project will utilize directed evolution and rational...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,978 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to the College of Charleston. The grant aims to develop and test a web-based platform that uses neural connectivity data to improve student learning of neuroanatomy. Key products to be delivered include: Revising and expanding an interactive graphical software system called "Show Me the Brain!!" to include 3D models of...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Social Brain: Behavioral, Neural, and Transcriptomic Modulation of the Brain" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. This funding was provided under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major issues facing the nation. Over the two year period of performance in Columbia, Missouri, this award will allow the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $360,000 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) aims to uncover the role of neuron-to-neuron communication in the post-mitotic maturation of neurons during postnatal development. Utilizing the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, the project will leverage advanced genetics, behavioral assays, microscopy, and genomics tools to examine the molecular and functional...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), supports research to develop an unsupervised computational algorithm that can integrate diverse datasets on the cellular and molecular structure of the mouse brain. The $338,538 award to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco aims to leverage new developments in machine learning to enable synthesis of large-scale spatial...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $750,000 to Brown University to develop and test a novel computational model of cognitive control in the human brain. The project aims to gain a deeper understanding of the neural computations underlying humans' flexible, goal-directed behavior, which has implications for understanding disorders of cognitive control and informing the design of...
This NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC Project Grant, awarded under the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $1,012,160 to Brown University to create computational tools that integrate molecular data with structural brain imaging. The project aims to build a comprehensive 3D molecular and structural map of brain areas for olfaction in mice, an important model system for understanding neural circuits. By combining advanced imaging methods with spatial transcriptomics, the research seeks to provide fundamental insights into how the molecular characteristics of neurons relate to their structural connections, enhancing the understanding of brain circuit function. The project also trains a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists skilled in the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and brain science, and fosters greater public awareness of brain science research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.0m | 8/14/25 |