Leaders of the National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance of top scientific societies uniting industry and academia to raise awareness of photonics, launched its Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group at the White House BRAIN Initiative launch conference.

Members of the NPI industry group are committing to invest upwards of $30 million in existing and future research and development spending over the next three years to advance optics and photonics technology in support of the White House BRAIN Initiative.

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The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

U.S. Photonics Industry Leaders are committing $30 million to tackle challenges of the BRAIN Initiative:

The National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance of major scientific societies, industry and academic organizations, is convening a Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group to focus on developing new optics and photonics technologies in support of the BRAIN Initiative. This multidisciplinary industry group is comprised of influential U.S. industry leaders including Accumetra, LLC; Agilent, Applied Scientific Instrumentation; Coherent; Hamamatsu; Inscopix, Inc.; Spectra—Physics; and THORLABS. The Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group will work closely with the BRAIN Initiative leadership and with the neuroscience research community to advance optics and photonics research ...

University of California, Berkeley and Carl Zeiss Microscopy are investing $12 million to create the Berkeley Brain Microscopy Innovation Center (BrainMIC).

The BrainMIC will fast-track microscopy development for emerging neurotechnologies and will run an annual course to teach researchers how to use the new technologies. The UC Berkeley Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute is creating a program that will generate innovative devices and analytic tools in engineering, computation, chemistry, and molecular biology to enable transformative brain science from studies of human cognition to neural circuits in model organisms.

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Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute website:  http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/ (no website yet for the Brain MIC) Brain Imaging Center (BIC):  neuroscience.berkeley.edu/BIC-campus-resource/ Zeiss Neuroscience Research: zeiss.com/microscopy/en_us/solutions/bioscience-research-areas/neuroscience-research

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Email: At Zeiss contact Dr. Jochen Tham  at jochen.tham@zeiss.com

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Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

University of California, Berkeley and Carl Zeiss Microscopy are announcing $12 million to create infrastructure for neurotechnology development:

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has invested in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute to create a program that will generate innovative devices and analytic tools in engineering, computation, chemistry, and molecular biology to enable transformative brain science from studies of human cognition to neural circuits ...