A collaborative group of neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to create an ultra-high-resolution molecular atlas of the brain and develop brain cell type-specific strategies for effective and precise gene delivery.

The research will leverage genetic information resolved with single-cell precision to establish a comprehensive database of cell types and neural circuits in the brain’s cognitive and reward systems. In combination with ultra-high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the researchers intend to build brain atlases of marmosets and macaque monkeys and make them freely available to other neuroscientists across the world. Read more…