Over US$2 million funding from the US National Institutes of Health to develop a new type of optical brain imaging platform

In collaboration with University of California Berkeley, Dr. Kevin Tsia, Associate Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Programme Director of Biomedical Engineering Programme, was awarded a funding of over US$2 million from the BRAIN Initiative Fund of the US National Institutes of Health for a project to develop a high-speed optical imaging technology for recording fast neural activity throughout the living animal brain.

Announced by the Obama administration in 2013, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)® Initiative supports research to develop and to use extraordinary new technologies that will revolutionise our understanding of the brain. Through 2018, the U.S. National Institutes of Health invested over US$950 million in the Initiative, supporting over 550 funded awards.

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