Project Grant P41EB018783

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a 3-year, $3,582,963 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The grant supports the development and validation of novel wearable transcranial focused ultrasound (TFUS) neuromodulation transducer array probes compatible with simultaneous electrophysiological recordings in behaving...

Grant Award Summary The University of Rochester received a $346,500 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the 21st Century Cures Act—Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027. This research project aims to develop and validate spatiotemporally optimized transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) techniques to selectively target cognitive...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $266,000 Project Grant to Columbia University under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a wearable noninvasive brain imaging device using near-infrared light-based time-domain diffuse optical tomography. The device aims to improve clinical outcomes in neurology by enabling measurement of deep brain blood flow, which is difficult to measure with current technologies. The grant will support...

This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program will fund research into magnetoelectric nanoparticles as multi-field controlled devices for wireless brain stimulation. Led by researchers at the University of Miami, the three-year project aims to experimentally study the feasibility of using magnetoelectric nanoparticles to achieve wireless deep brain stimulation with sub-millimeter spatial resolution in...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a $2,923,021 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant, titled "Integrative Analysis of Adaptive Information Processing and Learning-Dependent Circuit Reorganization in the Auditory System," will fund research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation award through the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of a cognitive dashboard software platform to aid neurosurgical clinical decision-making. Mindtrace Technologies, Inc. will deliver a turn-key software solution that enables neurosurgical teams to map individual patient brain functions, assess and track measures of mental performance throughout care, and integrate with existing medical imaging and data...

The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $2,008,605 Project Grant under the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant funding will support the development of an "Autonomous Rapidly Adaptive Multiphoton Microscope for Neural Recording and Stimulation." This adaptive multiphoton microscope system will leverage hybrid volumetric scanning,...

This $497,881 Project Grant, awarded July 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) and administered by the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, supports research and development of a ubiquitous brain-computer interface (UBCI) framework at San Diego State University. The primary deliverable is an adaptable neural signal processing system designed to enhance both cognitive and motor functions...

Neurodyne, Inc. received a $275,648 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an Analog Front End (AFE) platform for lightweight, long-term cortical monitoring. The grant period runs from February 15, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program seeks to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well as solutions to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded Boston Children's Hospital a $4.1 million Cooperative Agreement under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) on August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. The project, titled FAST-ET (FAST Automated Serial Tape-Enabled Electron Tomography), develops an integrated solution for...