NIH BRAIN Initiative

Overview

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies — large-scale NIH program (with DARPA, NSF, IARPA, and FDA collaboration) funding tools and technology to map the human brain. Funds neural recording technology, brain-machine interfaces, computational neuroscience, and large-scale connectomics. Coordinated from NIH campus in Bethesda MD.

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