KIBM awards $400,000 to 8 teams of investigators to support interdisciplinary brain-mind research in 2025-26.

Please help us in congratulating the following teams on their award selection:

• Matthew Lovett-Barron, UCSD Neurobiology: Investigating the neurobiology of visual prey pursuit using closed-loop virtual reality
• Matthew Shtrahman, UCSD Neurosciences: The Missing Link Between Brain Lymphatics, Sleep, Learning, Memory, and Dementia
• Samuel Kerk, Salk Institute: Hippocampus metabolism in memory and learning
• Johnatan Aljadeff, UCSD Neurobiology: Are neural attractor dynamics a suitable substrate for organizing “general knowledge”?
• Meenakshi Khosla, UCSD Cognitive Science: A universal code for meaning in biological and artificial neural networks
• Yujuan Su, UCSD Pediatrics: Defining the Brain Interoceptive Response to Organ Injury-Induced Stress
• Justin Trotter, UCSD Neurosciences and Neurobiology: Targeting Tools to Astrocyte-Synapse Junctions to Probe Their Roles in Circuits and Behavior
• Jordan Nichols, UCSD Bioengineering: Multi-modal activity imaging in traumatic brain injury

A list of current and past recipients is posted on the Innovative Research Grants (IRG) Award Recipients page.