Sentence examples for brain initiatives from inspiring English sources

He also was a founding member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, a nonprofit organization of more than 200 scientists who work to improve public knowledge of brain research.

In 1992, aided by Dr. James D. Watson, who won the Nobel Prize as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Mr. Mahoney founded the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, a foundation organization of about 190 neuroscientists, including Dr. Watson and six other Nobel laureates, that works to educate the public about their field.

"The new brain initiatives have great potential to accelerate progress in all of neuroscience.

Large-scale brain initiatives such as the US BRAIN initiative and the European Human Brain Project aim to marshall a vast amount of data and tools for the purpose of furthering our understanding of brains.

These projects have also received support from the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.

The ongoing big brain initiatives in Europe, USA and China will take this grand challenge, where the main focus is future computing, brain wiring and brain disorders, respectively.

"The Obama administration has commissioned a Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, backed by $300m in funding and supported by Darpa – it is a programme researching a reliable neural interface technology.

Another member of the initial group who proposed what eventually became the Brain Initiative is Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, New York.

In April this year President Obama announced a hugely ambitious science project, the "Brain" Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies).

And the Brain Initiative could also bring advances in this technology.

"I'm very happy Obama launched the human brain initiative," he says.