Campus’s Isacoff Lab receives DARPA funding to research neural implants

The campus’s Isacoff Lab has been granted about $21 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, for research into neural implants.

Isacoff’s funding, distributed over the course of four years, is part of a larger project from DARPA granting a total of about $65 million to labs in the United States and France.

The grant will go towards Neural Engineering System Design, or NESD — a program that looks to create neural implants to aid in sensory restoration and possibly allow humans to communicate directly with technology using their brains.