News from NINDS


NIH greatly expands investment in BRAIN Initiative

Friday, November 2, 2018
NIH announces new round of awards for cutting-edge brain research

The National Institutes of Health announces funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain.

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NIH Workshop: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Pain Models

January 30-31, 2019 | Rockville, MD
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop entitled Critical Evaluation of Animal Pain Models for Therapeutics Development. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the use of animal models of pain and migraine for therapeutics development.

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Doctor Walter Koroshetz

New and Upcoming Opportunities for Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) Research in Fiscal Year 2019

Saturday, December 1, 2018
As the US population ages, the burden of illness due to dementia continues to grow at an alarming rate.

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