A National Network of Neurotechnology Centers for the BRAIN Initiative.
We propose the creation of a national network of neurotechnology centers to enhance and accelerate the BRAIN Initiative and optimally leverage the effort and creativity of individual laboratories involved in it. As "brain observatories," these centers could provide the critical interdisciplinary environment both for realizing ambitious and complex technologies and for providing individual investigators with access to them.
Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
A Paul
AP
Alivisatos
The Kavli Foundation, Oxnard, CA 93030, USA.
Miyoung
M
Chun
Department of Genetics and Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
George M
GM
Church
Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, and Neurobiology Section/Division of Biology, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0115, USA.
Ralph J
RJ
Greenspan
Physics, Applied Physics, & Bioengineering and The Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech, Pasadena, CA USA 92093-0126, USA. Electronic address: roukes@caltech.edu.
Michael L
ML
Roukes
Neurotechnology Center, Departments of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: rmy5@columbia.edu.
Rafael
R
Yuste
D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D001921:Brain; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*
big data; connectomics; imaging; nanotechnology; neural probes