Obama’s BRAIN: A View of Science Policy
from Inside the White House

Philip Rubin, Ph.D.
Haskins Laboratories and Yale University

Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 3:30 p.m., Bousfield A106
Dinner for registered attendees to follow in the Skip Lowe Atrium

The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is one of the Obama Administration’s Grand Challenges. As part of a broader set of White House
neuroscience activities, it was launched to help revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. This presentation will provide a
glimpse of the inner workings of the complex federal scientific establishment that helps develop and nurture such initiatives and also encourages and coordinates their funding. Precursors and catalysts to this initiative will be discussed along with an update on its rapid growth and possible
future developments.

Sponsors
Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS)
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Neurobiology of Language (NBL)

For registration information contact ibacs@uconn.edu.

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