Project Grant 2619492
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $200,000 to the University of Massachusetts on June 15, 2025, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for a project titled "Closed-Loop Hybrid Intelligence with Optogenetic-Neuromorphic Co-Designed Cell Interfaces." The project, scheduled for completion by May 31, 2028, delivers advanced engineering tools and methods that integrate high-resolution...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded the University of California Santa Cruz $1,958,603 in Project Grant funding (Award Date: August 1, 2025; Project Period: August 1, 2025–July 31, 2029) to develop an experimental and computational framework for exploring the learning and computational capabilities of human brain organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The primary deliverables include the design...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $918,934 to the University of California, Santa Cruz on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct a three-year project (completion date: July 31, 2029) investigating how the human brain integrates information across sensory modalities, temporal scales, and prior knowledge. The research will develop and test a computational...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, awarded $225,000 to the University of California Irvine under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) on October 1, 2025, for a collaborative U.S.-France research initiative. This project grant supports integrated experimental and computational research investigating how astrocytes—non-neuronal brain cells—modulate neural dynamics and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $604,425 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, supports fundamental research investigating how the brain leverages memory systems to guide attention while...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Drexel University received a $1,068,160 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030. The award funds fundamental neuroscience research investigating "dendritic democracy"—whether neurons integrate incoming signals equally regardless of their location on the dendritic tree—using fruit fly (Drosophila...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $775,500 to Washington University in collaboration with partner institutions on July 15, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to support collaborative neuroscience research extending through June 30, 2030. This Project Grant funds research investigating single-neuron computational mechanisms underlying visual object coding and memory formation in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Allen Institute received a $660,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop computational models of neural representation and inter-areal communication in mouse visual cortex. Awarded June 1, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2030, this collaborative U.S.-German research initiative integrates...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Yale University received a $1.4 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. The award funds development of BrainScan, a high-bandwidth real-time closed-loop neural interface instrument designed to enable direct bidirectional communication between biological neurons and digital systems. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Diego received a $375,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The four-year award, active from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029, supports collaborative research investigating analog information storage in chromatin states—specifically how cells maintain identity information through gene expression regulation...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, awarded a $1.8 million Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego to conduct basic research on connectivity update rules in biological neural networks. The award, issued August 1, 2026, and scheduled for completion July 31, 2031, supports fundamental neuroscience research aimed at discovering the biological principles governing when and where neural connections are modified in the living brain. The research will employ an all-optical experimental approach combining two-photon calcium imaging, single-cell holographic optogenetic stimulation, and functional connectivity mapping to measure and experimentally induce synaptic plasticity in awake mice at single-cell resolution. The project's deliverables include identification of how behavioral state, neuromodulatory signaling, and local inhibitory circuits regulate connectivity update rules, as well as characterization of how local network organization and functional neuronal ensembles influence synaptic modification. Beyond primary research outcomes, the award supports training of graduate students in cutting-edge neuroscience, optical imaging, computational analysis, and interdisciplinary research methodologies, with broad dissemination of novel experimental methods and scientific discoveries to advance both fundamental neuroscience understanding and the development of more efficient artificial intelligence systems capable of continual learning without catastrophic forgetting.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.8m | 7/13/26 |