1. US BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative) https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/
BRAIN Initiative is aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space. Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize, store, and retrieve vast quantities of information, all at the speed of thought.
2. Europe Human Brain Project (HBP) https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/
The Human Brain Project is a H2020 FET Flagship Project which strives to accelerate the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine.
This acceleration will be achieved by a strategic alignment of scientific research programmes in fundamental neuroscience, advanced simulation and multi-scale modelling with the construction of an enabling Research Infrastructure.
Objective:
(1) development of a scientific infrastructure for brain research and cognitive neuroscience
(2) gather and disseminate data describing the brain and disease
(3) simulate the brain
(4) build theory and models of the brain
(5) develop brain-inspired computing, data analytics, and robots
3. Japan Brain/MINS (Brain/Mapping by Innovative Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies)
Goals:
(1) use the marmoset, a small primate with a short life cycle, for functional and structural brain mapping and genetic studies
(2) develop innovative tools to monitor and manipulate different aspects of neural activity
(3) establish bio-markers for brain disorders