Project Grant FA23862514024

The Project Grant award R21EY035958, "COMPUTATIONAL VOLUMETRIC ONE-PHOTON VOLTAGE IMAGING IN RODENTS", is funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867). The $259,095 award to Rockefeller University aims to develop an advanced optical recording system capable of capturing the full electrical dynamics of large neuronal ensembles in the cortex and hippocampus of awake, behaving rodents. This will be achieved through a novel approach combining...

The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $475,000 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. The goal of this 4-year project is to characterize the connectivity and functional role of specific neural circuits in the mammalian visual system that transmit visual information from the retina to the primary visual cortex. The research will use innovative techniques, including anterograde circuit tracing,...

The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $227,265 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research aimed at mapping human retinal ganglion cell receptive fields in vivo at cellular resolution. The primary objective is to directly connect light stimulation of individual retinal photoreceptors to both the activity of retinal ganglion cells and the conscious perception of that activity. This...

This $5.976 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund the development of an all-optical holographic brain interface capable of precisely and bidirectionally altering neural population activity across large volumes of brain tissue with high speed and resolution. Awarded to the University of California, Berkeley on September 1, 2022 for a three-year period ending August 31, 2025, the grant will support the...

This $409,375 Project Grant was awarded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant aims to use artificial vision networks to decipher the brain algorithms underlying 3D object perception in biological vision systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Training novel, analyzable network architectures to replicate the 3D shape tuning functions of individual neurons recorded in the visual...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $424,750 to the University of Rochester to develop an ultrafast optical neural network technology for brain-scale computing. The research aims to leverage optical properties of light, such as high speed, bandwidth, and low loss, to process large-scale neural network models in real-time using time-multiplexed ultrashort optical pulses. This approach seeks to overcome limitations of current...

This $293,588 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program, aims to develop a novel multi-spectral illumination source called the "Effective Uniform Color-Light Integration Device (EUCLID)". The primary objective is to create a compact, high-performance light source that can provide exceptionally uniform illumination...

This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867) will support research to test the use of micro-stimulation in the visual cortex as a potential prosthetic strategy for restoring 3D object vision. The $232,500 award to The Johns Hopkins University, which runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026, will combine array recording, stimulation, and behavioral experiments in macaque monkeys to determine if micro-stimulation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $467,128 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop mid-infrared retinomorphic sensor devices and demonstrate in-sensor image convolution processing. The research aims to realize infrared vision systems that emulate the human retina, utilizing lead selenide semiconductors to expand sensing capabilities into the mid-wavelength infrared spectrum. Key objectives include...