The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $505,311 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Inc. (3i) to establish the feasibility of combining recent advances in optical techniques to produce a commercial instrument that enables large-scale all-optical electrophysiology. The project aims to develop an instrument that can simultaneously record neural activity from thousands of neurons across multiple cortical layers or subcortical regions, while also selectively inducing activity patterns in subsets of these neurons using optogenetics. The award will fund preliminary in vitro and in vivo experiments in collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to assess the suitability of the proposed technology. The funding period is from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.
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