Four UC Berkeley research teams will share $1.7 million from the federal government’s BRAIN initiative, part of $70 million in new grants announced Thursday, Oct. 13, by the National Institutes of Health.
This is the third round of grants to support the goals of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative announced three years ago by President Barack Obama. The announcement coincided with a speech Obama delivered about his administration’s eight years of scientific achievements at the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
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