NIH BRAIN Funding Opportunities: NIH BRAIN Initiative and Functional Human Neuroscience

Presented At:
LabRoots - Neuroscience Virtual Event 2019

Presented By:
James Gnadt, PhD - Program Director, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Jim Gnadt, NINDS Program Director in Systems and Computational Neuroscience and Team Lead for the NIH BRAIN Integrative and Quantitative Approaches, has worked in systems and cognitive neuroscience and neuroengineering for over 35 years. He has held his current position at NINDS, the neurology institute of NIH, since 2008, and has been a principal in the NIH BRAIN Initiative since its inception in 2014 where he co-leads the team of trans-NIH Program Directors in the 'understanding circuits' part of the initiative.

Co-Presented By:
Karen David, PhD - Program Director, BRAIN Initiative, (National Institutes of Health) & Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Speaker Biography:
Karen David currently oversees the Circuits and Integrated Approaches portfolio of the BRAIN initiative. She joined the Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience cluster in 2013. Over the years, she has served the BRAIN Initiative in various capacities, including as Project Officer, Scientific Review Officer, and Program Analyst to her current role as Program Director. Karen has also worked on various special projects including coordinating the review activities of the Biospecimen Repository Acquisition Committee (BRAC) for the Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program. Before joining extramural research, Karen did her postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She earned a B.S. from the University of the Philippines and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Webinar:
NIH BRAIN Funding Opportunities: NIH BRAIN Initiative and Functional Human Neuroscience

Webinar Abstract:
NIH representatives from the BRAIN Initiative will be presenting an overview of the NIH BRAIN Initiative and describing funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) supporting impacts in human neuroscience. Guided by BRAIN 2025 A Scientific Vision, we have designed a portfolio of “Integrated Approaches” FOAs that support research in functional systems neuroscience to produce a dynamic picture of the brain that will show how individual cells and complex neural circuits support processes such as sensation, perception, attention, reasoning, intention, decision-making, emotion, navigation, communication, and homeostasis. These FOAs emphasize the use of cutting-edge methods of activation and recording to understand a quantifiable behavior at the level of circuit mechanisms. As such, research approaches are expected to include the functional units of circuits – that is, the activity patterns of ensembles of cells with sub-second temporal resolution, or finer. In addition, under the premise that model-driven experimental design and computational approaches can facilitate high-quality science, all these FOAs encourage or require sophisticated quantitative methodology.

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