The grant was part of $46 million handed out by the National Institutes of Health to support the goals of its BRAIN Initiative.
October 17, 2014
Michael Lin
Michael Lin, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and of bioengineering, and Mark Schnitzer, PhD, associate professor of biology and of applied physics, have been awarded close to $1 million to develop improved ways of recording activity in the brain.
The grant was part of $46 million handed out by the National Institutes of Health to support the goals of its Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which was announced in 2013.
Lin’s lab and Schnitzer’s lab have each developed tiny protein sensors that can detect voltage changes within a neuron. These have provided the first accurate real-time view of a neuron’s electrical activity.
The BRAIN initiative award will support work to improve both the sensors and the microscopes that record the brain’s activity.
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