Bipartisan Briefing from Capitol Hill on a new commitment to support brain research and an update on the BRAIN Initiative.

October 1, 2015 at 9:30 – 11:00 am EDT United States Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, D.C.

Sponsored by The Kavli Foundation

YouTube link

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About the Briefing

This briefing will provide details about new funding and research endeavors, including a new commitment to support brain research with The Kavli Foundation in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, The Rockefeller University and the University of California, San Francisco. A discussion will focus on the BRAIN Initiative and on the future of neuroscience moderated by Alan Leshner, CEO Emeritus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Joining the discussion will be leaders from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

 

Program

Special Remarks

Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator (D-Maryland) Andy Harris, MD, MHS, U.S. Member of Congress (R-Maryland) Carolyn Maloney, U.S. Member of Congress (D-New York)

Speakers

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The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative (FNI) is a policy initiative designed to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying federal research efforts across brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development.

The initiative aims to coordinate research across agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. Congressman Fattah is the lead Democrat on the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee overseeing federal expenditures in the science agencies.

 

 

Chaka Fattah & Neuroscience Initiative

From Congressman Fattah’s website

What is the Fattah Neuroscience Initiative?

The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative (FNI) is an innovative, non-incremental policy initiative designed to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying, in a collaborative fashion, federal research efforts across brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development. The initiative aims to coordinate research across agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. The initiative promotes research and discovery across brain cognition, development, disease and injury.

Why concentrate on neuroscience?

Although our brains control all that we do, think and comprehend, we have only a burgeoning understanding of this enigmatic organ. In many ways the brain represents the final frontier of scientific research. In the natural human quest ...