funding, neuroscience

The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

A total of more than $1 billion will go to institutions including the Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, and branches of the University of California.

In chapter 4, “Building a Cure Machine,” author Victoria Jackson reveals the challenges in launching a foundation focused on funding research on a rare disease.

Ali Guthy, the daughter of cosmetics entrepreneur Victoria Jackson, discusses NMO, the rare autoimmune disease she suffers from.

Advocacy groups call for the role to be filled.

But can $3 billion dollars meet the lofty goals of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?

British scientists will continue to receive grants from the European Union, including its flagship program Horizon 2020.

Researchers identify a new ALS-associated gene thanks to funds generated by the social media challenge that went viral in summer 2014.

An advisory committee for the BRAIN Initiative says that to fully fund the goals of the neuroscience research program, taxpayers should fork over $4.5 billion.

Europe and the United States launch a collaboration linking their government-backed initiatives to study the human brain.

The recently announced BRAIN Initiative, referred to as the Apollo program for neuroscience, needs more funding and better goals to live up to the hype.

Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.

This year’s winners research topics ranging from stem cell regulation to brain damage from football injuries.

Secrets to scoring big money grants for innovative, out-of-the-box research