Project Grant R21EY037066
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded Trustees of Boston University a $482,312 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) effective August 1, 2025, through February 28, 2030. This award supports research testing a dynamic spatiotemporal normalization framework for human visual perception. The research will investigate how visual perception depends not only on instantaneous visual input but also on temporal context—what occurred before and after a...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Harvard Medical School received a $1.7 million project grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to conduct research on the neural and computational mechanisms underlying natural viewing behavior in primates. Awarded on September 15, 2025, with a completion date of January 31, 2029, this Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) project delivers integrated research services combining...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital $453,750 under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) for a Project Grant titled "Finessing the Details: Subclasses of LGN Neurons and the Richness of Spatial Transcriptomics," effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. This research project will generate spatial transcriptomics datasets mapping the distribution of genetically-defined cell classes within the lateral...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded Columbia University's Health Sciences Division a $156,302 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) beginning March 1, 2026, and concluding August 31, 2028. This research initiative, titled "Characterizing Representational Geometry and Learning Across Primate Visual Streams," delivers fundamental neuroscience research aimed at advancing understanding of how the primate visual system balances...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) awarded $2,143,860 to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, on August 11, 2025, for a project titled "Mechanisms for Generative Vision in the Primate Ventral Stream." The project, scheduled for completion by June 30, 2030, investigates how the primate brain's visual system implements the "analysis by...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), awarded $1,219,752 to the University of California, Santa Barbara on September 15, 2025, for a two-year project extending through September 14, 2027. This Project Grant supports the development and implementation of data-efficient methods for natural image reconstruction from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to advance visual neuroscience research. The research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $435,052 Vision Research (CFDA 93.867) Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2029. This research project will investigate the molecular and genetic mechanisms that control photoreceptor subtype specification for color vision in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) retina as a model system. The research will identify conserved transcription factors and...
- This federal Project Grant award of $576,474.00 was provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI), which administers the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867). The award supports a research project titled "Hierarchy of Visuospatial Codes in the Primate Temporal Lobe" conducted by President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School. The project aims to elucidate the relationship between visual feature processing in the inferior temporal cortex...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded $173,016 to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) for a project grant effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. This award supports systematic identification and mechanistic characterization of novel oxidative protective genes to prevent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The research involves...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Columbia University's Health Sciences Division received a $149,264 Project Grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), with an award date of May 1, 2026 and completion targeted for September 29, 2028. This grant supports research examining the representation and computation of semantic categories in the dorsal visual stream of primates. The project investigates how the primate brain generates neural representations that...
The National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), awarded $473,750 to Trustees of Boston University for a 24-month project (June 1, 2025–May 31, 2027) to conduct foundational research on the functional and molecular organization of face-processing regions in the primate brain. The research will generate a first-ever, cell-type-specific functional map of face areas using the common marmoset as a model organism. The project combines optical intrinsic imaging and two-photon calcium imaging with spatial transcriptomics to establish the relationship between molecular properties of neurons and their specific roles in face perception, leveraging newly developed molecular atlases of marmoset brain cell types. Specifically, the research will deliver two primary scientific outputs: (1) determination of whether the topological arrangement of face patches can be defined by their molecular architecture through optical intrinsic imaging combined with sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics (Aim 1), and (2) characterization of population-level neuronal activity and cell-type identification through two-photon calcium imaging with imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (Aim 2). These deliverables will advance understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying high-level object recognition and establish a framework for future studies on how genetic alterations contribute to circuit-specific innovations in face-processing neuronal properties.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $473.8k | 7/25/25 |