NIH announces winners of BRAIN Initiative awards

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BRAIN InitiativeOct 1 2014

Today the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative awards, and six teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are among the recipients. The MIT winners include:

-Edward Boyden, Mark Bathe and Yin Peng: Ultra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types

-Ian Wickersham: Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing

-Robert Desimone: Vascular Interfaces for Brain Imaging and Stimulation

-Alan Jasanoff: Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI

-Elly Nedivi and Peter So: Next generation high-throughput random access imaging, in vivo

-Mriganka Sur: Cortical circuits and information flow during memory-guided perceptual decisions

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