NIH Announces $220 Million In Awards For The BRAIN Initiative

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced the funding of 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million in funding. The funds will come through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative—or BRAIN Initiative.

According to NIH, the BRAIN Initiative is a trans-agency effort that seeks to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain. The total 2018 support for the program currently comes to more than $300 million, assisted by support from Congress through the regular appropriations process and the 21st Century Cures Act.

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