Johns Hopkins University Global Brain Workshop

Date: From 07 April 2016 to 08 April 2016

Location:
Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute
Johns Hopkins University,
United States

Meeting type: Workshop

Organised by: Richard Huganir, Joshua Vogelstein, Michael Miller
Sponsored by: National Science Foundation, The Kavli Foundation

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Outcomes:

• Each attendee was invited to offer a single big idea that could have maximal impact, while being both feasible, given existing resources, and universally inclusive

• Four ideas emerged as grand challenges for global brain science

  • Kavli White Paper link

• Global Brain Workshop attendees published a NeuroView article on one of the grand challenges, cloud-computing technology to enable large-scale neurodata storing, exploring, analyzing, and modeling

  • Neuron article link

Stakeholder engagement:

• Over 75 individuals from 12 countries and 5 continents

• Attendees consisted of government representatives, neuroscience researchers, private entities, and non-profit institutions

Related news:

http://www.braininitiative.org/2016/04/22/international-brain-projects-considered/