Letter asks Congress for nearly $500 million to sustain BRAIN Initiative
Angie Voyles Askham
Supporters of U.S. neuroscience research sent a letter to Congress last week asking for increased funding for the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative in the face of one of the program’s funding streams coming to end.
In the letter, 150 organizations asked Congress to appropriate $468 million for the BRAIN Initiative for the coming fiscal year. That amount, the same that BRAIN received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022, would offset the impending funding gap and...