The Regents of the University of Michigan received a $137,586 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 grant funds the development of a reconfigurable neural interface platform that can integrate multiple sensor modalities, including electrophysiological recording, neurostimulation, and physiochemical...
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $802,003 Cooperative Agreement under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative program to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The award will fund the development of the "NeuroClean" technology, which aims to create a transparent microelectrode array system capable of synergistically combining high-resolution optical...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) is for the development of a piezoelectric inchworm machine to enable automated implantation of miniaturized flexible microelectrodes into the brain for large-scale chronic neural recordings. The $499,991 award will fund the development of the inchworm insertion mechanism and its integration with a 3D-printed skull cap platform. This system aims to address the challenges of electrode buckling and...
The University of Utah received a $2,856,242 project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to develop noninvasive targeted neuromodulation techniques. The grant is funded through the 21st Century Cures Act Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies program. Under the award, the University will perform research in non-human primates to determine effective stimulation parameters for modulating deep brain circuits...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Oregon a $301,172 project grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The purpose of this 3-year project is to develop scalable fabrication methods for high-density amorphous silicon carbide microelectrode arrays to enable chronic neural interfacing for recording neural activity in studies...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop a fully wireless, flexible electrical-acoustic implant for high-resolution neural stimulation and recording across large-scale brain circuits. The implant is intended to provide minimally invasive ultrasound neuromodulation and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $319,999 to the University of Notre Dame to develop an implantable neural interface platform with three key innovations: 1) optimized resistive RAM memory for efficient data storage, 2) programmable analog front-end circuits for high-density neural signal acquisition, and 3) specialized processors for energy-efficient computation of neural network operations. The goal is to create an...
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...
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,...
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...