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The DARPA-funded program launches this month at two prestige locations, UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). This $26 million, multi-institutional research was announced last October by the President as our best chance at reducing the damage caused by a wide range of brain disorders including Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, and other dementia-related illnesses.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a series of four public meetings to discuss the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.  The Parkinson's Action Network (PAN) believes the Initiative could represent a breakthrough in the ways collaborative science can be harnessed and deployed to find new ways to treat, cure, and prevent many diseases of the brain.  While PAN is supportive of the Initiative, we want

Pitt Scientists Receive $3.5 Million for Brain Research from DSF Charitable Foundation