Boston University is creating a new Center for Integrated Life Science and Engineering (CILSE) for interdisciplinary research which will bring together outstanding scientists and engineers from across the University to work collaboratively in the areas of neuroscience and biological design.

CILSE will comprise 170,000 square feet. Its core resources will include a shared equipment facility for Cognitive Neuroimaging. Three new research Centers will be launched including the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology.

Web Information

BU Neuroscience Website:  http://www.bu.edu/neuro/

Graduate Program for Neuroscience:  http://www.bu.edu/neuro/graduate/

Center for Systems Neuroscience:  http://www.bu.edu/csn/

Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology (formerly CompNet):  http://compnet.bu.edu/

Contact Information

Director of Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Shelley Russek: srussek@bu.edu

Director of Center for Systems Neuroscience, Michael Hasselmo:  hasselmo@bu.edu

Director of Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham: shinn@bu.edu

BU Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Mission of BU resonates with a shared belief that major discoveries will come from innovative thinking and an interdisciplinary community of faculty and students.

The broad range of neuroscience research at BU is coordinated through a unified community of investigators from multiple research groups of our Charles River and MED campuses.

Centers bridge the efforts of  individual laboratories and their leaders via scientific retreats, innovative workshops, and collaborative research grants that stimulate ...

The University of Utah Health Sciences has committed $10 million to launch a Neuroscience Initiative that will catalyze interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience research.

The goal is to deepen the understanding of the function and disorders of the nervous system and to improve patient care through innovation and integration of basic, translational, and clinical research efforts. Initial funds will be used to create a “neuroscience hub,” including space for collaborative research and neuroscience training.

Web Information

Website:   neurogateway.utah.edu/Neuroscience-Institute Twitter: twitter.com/uu_neuro

Contact Information

Email: parker.becca@utah.edu Phone: (801) 585-0343 Address:

Organization

Program Manager: Becca Parker, Ph.D.

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

University of Utah is committing $10 million to launch a Neuroscience Initiative to support the goals of the BRAIN Initiative:

The University of Utah Health Sciences has committed $10 million to launch a Neuroscience Initiative that will catalyze interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience research. The goal is to deepen the understanding of the function and disorders of the nervous system and to improve patient care through innovation and integration of basic, translational, and clinical research efforts. This targeted investment by the university will lay the foundation for an expanded effort to enhance neuroscience research and advance the goals of ...

The U.T. BRAIN initiative funds $20 million in support of a virtual U.T. System Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute.

The institute’s purpose is to promote trans-disciplinary, multi-institutional research projects focused on neuroscience and neurotechnology challenges that will transform the fields of imaging, neurocomputation, and molecular mapping; the development of neuro-devices; and basic/translational/clinical investigations in intractable neurological diseases.

Web Information

Website:  utsystem.edu/sites/neuroscience/ut-system-neuroscience-institute neUroTransmitter Blog:  utsystem.edu/sites/neuroscience/blog

Contact Information

Email: Tom Jacobs tjacobs@utsystem.edu or Andrew Hughes anhughes@utsystem.edu

Organization

Advisory Board Neuroscience Council Working Groups

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

University of Texas System is announcing alignment of more than $20 million in equipment, faculty resources, and seed grants with the goals of the BRAIN Initiative:

In 2013, the University of Texas (UT) System organized a multi-campus Neuroscience Council in response to the BRAIN Initiative. The Council brings together top researchers from UT’s 15 academic and health institutions to explore new convergent research that takes advantage of faculty expertise in disciplines such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, materials science, physics, and chemistry, along with cutting-edge resources such as the 10-petaflop supercomputer at UT Austin. The UT System has also created a Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute that ...

The University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute focuses on unlocking the mysteries of normal and abnormal brain function.

The Brain Institute will support the efforts of more than 150 neuroscientists at the university and create seven new Centers, including the NeuroTech Center, which capitalizes on the University’s advances in brain-computer interfaces for paralyzed individuals, and the NeuroDiscovery Center, which will provide unique resources to enable innovative basic science research.

 Web Information

Website:  neurobio.pitt.edu/about.html Wikipedia Entry: wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh_School_of_Medicine

Contact Information

Email: blaney@bns.pitt Phone: (412) 648-9000 Address: Department of Neurobiology School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh E1440 BSTWR 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2536

Organization

Scientific Director: Peter L. Strick, Ph.D

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

University of Pittsburgh is announcing more than $65 million in funding for the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute:

In January 2014, the University of Pittsburgh announced the creation of a Brain Institute focused on unlocking the mysteries of normal and abnormal brain function. The Brain Institute will support the efforts of more than 150 neuroscientists at the university and create seven new Centers, including the NeuroTech Center, which capitalizes on the University’s advances in brain-computer interfaces for paralyzed individuals, and the NeuroDiscovery Center, which will provide unique resources to enable innovative basic science research. ...

NIH director Francis Collins, M.D., discusses some of the 58 projects funded in the first wave of grants awarded by the NIH under the BRAIN Initiative. He spoke at a press conference announcing the awards, September 30, 2014.

Video published on October 2, 2014  by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6g_TpQsL0I

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.

Web Information

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

Contact Information

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

Organization

Director: Staff Directory

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 ...

The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) BrainHub initiative spans across CMU’s colleges and schools, involving nearly 50 faculty and over 150 scientists.

A major facet of this initiative is increasing collaboration among faculty from disciplines such as computer science and engineering with those taking biological and behavioral approaches to neuroscience. Linking brain science to behavior via the application of machine learning, statistics, and computational modeling will be a hallmark of CMU’s efforts, along with commercialization of the new technologies and applications.

Web Information

Brain Hub:  cmu.edu/research/brain

Neuroscience Programs and Centers:  cmu.edu/neuro/

Contact Information

Email: gbalbier@andrew.cmu.edu Phone: 412-268-9718 Address: Brain Hub 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Executive Director: Gerry Balbier Facutly Experts

Research Areas

Sharing the World’s Brain Research Data

Researchers around the world are collecting vast amounts of data from the brain at a rapid pace. We believe that much can be learned by combining the global collection of data. We are creating new tools that will index, aggregate and share this global data, making it accessible in powerful new ways. Faculty experts in this area »

Mapping & Exploring the Interconnectivity of the Brain and Behavior

The brain is made up of billions of neurons, which make billions of connections to communicate information. While scientists have been ...