This federal Project Grant award of $738,566.00 was awarded on April 1, 2025 by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The grant supports research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California to define the circuit mechanisms that regulate somatosensory feedback in the brain. The research aims to determine if inhibitory mechanisms for...
This federal 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) program, provides $465,500.00 to Trustees of Boston University to conduct research on "Close-Loop Deep Brain Optoacoustic Stimulation at Sub-Millimeter Precision". The award has a start date of July 5, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. The research aims to...
This $594,286 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, will support research to explore the functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices. The key research objectives are to: Compare the spatial and functional structure of excitatory impacts on local populations in primary auditory cortex (A1) and...
This $1,836,842 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support research into sensory-motor strategies for odor-guided navigation. Funded under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program, the Trustees of Boston University will conduct research to better understand how spatial information is encoded in the olfactory bulb during odor-guided search behaviors in mice. Researchers will use new imaging tools to...
This federal 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) program, provides $273,254 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on the neural computations involved in active sensing, particularly focused on the sense of touch through vibrissa movement in mice. The 4-year project aims to develop theoretical models and...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $1,490,248 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). The award supports a 3-year research project titled "Cortical Circuit Dynamics Underlying Multisensory Decision Making." The project aims to investigate how the brain integrates visual, vestibular, and kinesthetic...
This 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) program, provides $1,830,562 to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School, from September 1, 2024 to May 8, 2025. The award supports research to elucidate the properties and functions of different types of mechanosensory neurons, define the organizational...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as the Health Sciences Division, a $2,554,313 federal Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant, which runs from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2026, will support research to determine if targeted in vivo manipulations of local circuit control...
This federal 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), provides $828,335 to the University of Chicago to investigate the roles of inhibitory and disinhibitory neural circuits in the formation, stabilization, and competition of neural assemblies in the cortex. The project aims to experimentally test theoretical...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), through its Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853), awarded a $578,701 project grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on June 16, 2025. The goal of this 5-year project is to develop a near-infrared confocal squeezed light-field microscopy (SLIM) system capable of kilohertz volumetric imaging of neuronal action potentials in 3D. This technology is intended to...