HRHR researchers named as 2013 Allen Distinguished Investigators
Two NIH High Risk – High Reward Investigators, Jeff Gore, a 2012 New Innovator from MIT, and Markus Covert, a 2009 Pioneer from Stanford University, were selected as 2013 Allen Distinguished Investigators.
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Two HRHR researchers awarded world’s largest brain research prize
Americans, Karl Deisseroth, a 2005 Pioneer Awardee, and 2012 Transformative Research Awardee, and Edward S. Boyden, a 2007 New Innovator, and 2012 Transformative Research Awardee and four European scientists were awarded the 2013 prize for their contributions to the development of “optogenetics.”
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Rats Communicate Via Brain-To-Brain Interface
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, a 2010 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awardee from Duke University, and his colleagues, have connected the brains of rat pairs through the internet and shown that the rats can share sensory information, acting as a dyad rather than strictly as individuals.
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