Research Funding Roundtable – Organization for Human Brain Mapping

When:

18th June 2015

Time:

11:45am

Where:

Room 316C Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu.

Cost:

Free for OHBM2015 registrants

• What trends in brain research funding can we expect as government agency budgets tighten?  
• What major brain mapping initiatives are on the horizon?
• What scope is there for international partnerships in brain mapping?
• What are grant reviewers actually thinking?  

Bring your lunch and spend an hour with representatives from leading international funding agencies to get answers to all your questions.

Moderator: Gary Egan, Centre for Integrative Brain Function (Australia). 

Roundtable panelists include:

• Michelle Freund, program officer, National Institute of Mental Health (USA)
• Linda Lanyon, executive director International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (Sweden)
• Alumit Ishai, Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Program at National Science Foundation (USA)
• Tetsuya Matsuda, program officer Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS), Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University (Japan) 
• Patrick Bellgowan, program director National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (USA) 

You can ask questions in person, or via Twitter before or during the event using #braindialogue During and after the roundtable discussion, we encourage you to take this VERY short survey about the event, and the future of brain research.