2016

The Funding Opportunity: The BRAIN Initiative’s RO1 funding opportunity (Deadline: March 8, 2017) entitled “Targeted BRAIN Circuits Projects, solicits applications for research projects using integrated approaches to “understand how circuit activity gives rise to mental experience and behavior.” Submitted proposals should aim to improve the understanding of neural circuits by, “systematically controlling stimuli and/or behavior

The DECODE Summit videos feature thought leaders discussing scientific, technological and ecosystem challenges facing the scientific community, industry, nonprofits, and government. In a prior blog post, we promised to make the videos open, and I’m happy to say they are now available! To watch all 11 videos, go here. As explained before, the DECODE Summit

It’s been an exciting Neuroscience 2016. The community has presented over 30 talks and posters featuring Inscopix technology, and there are now over 20 publications. We’re so proud of the advances we’ve made together. We’re constantly collaborating with researchers to put forward cutting-edge technology so that we can bring tour-de-force circuit-level investigations of brain function

“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order.” – Sydney Brenner It was an honor and privilege to have hosted the DECODE Summit at the Four Seasons in Mountain View on September 28th, 2016, bringing together stakeholders across distinct nodes of the neuroscience community. In the coming

Three years ago, President Obama announced the White House BRAIN Initiative. It was a moment I’ll never forget. In an instant, the President of the United States made our very existence a national priority. Tomorrow, I have the honor and pleasure of attending the White House Frontiers Conference at Carnegie Mellon, a special, invitation-only ‘meeting

You know that situation when you run into someone from your past, but it takes a while to register how you know them? I had this experience a couple of weeks ago at the DECODE Summit, an ambitious event hosted by Inscopix that brought together stakeholders across the neuroscience community, from academia, government, non-profits, industry,

Our exciting DECODE Summit kicks off this week (I’ll tell you much more about DECODE in future posts, but for now read here how the goal is to incentivize investigators to pursue groundbreaking brain research), and you’d think I wouldn’t have the time to squeeze in a blog post, but I can’t help myself, because

The last few weeks have been really great for Inscopix, and we’re feeling incredibly grateful! The recent close of a $10M Series A round led by Playground Global marks the close of a successful first chapter in the Inscopix story and the beginning of a second chapter. We’re thrilled about this new chapter, and proud

Technology can enable our lives in positive ways, if used wisely. Take my experience just over the last twelve hours. Last night I downloaded a sleep app that wakes you up at an optimal point in your sleep cycle. In other words, it makes sure the alarm doesn’t go off during REM (rapid eye movement)

Of all the amazing feats our brains perform, our ability to form, store, and retrieve memories stands out as one of the most fascinating, and challenging areas of neuroscience study. Despite the complexity, scientists have made significant inroads into understanding how many of the molecular and synaptic pieces of the puzzle fit together. However, we

Mountain View, CA, August 9, 2016/– Inscopix, Inc., announced the addition of four distinguished brain research experts, Botond Roska (FMI), Hongkui Zeng (AIBS), Scott Sternson (Janelia), and Surya Ganguli (Stanford), to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The new members will join Eric Nestler (Mt. Sinai) and Guoping Feng (MIT). The SAB will work closely with