KIBM awards $400,000 to 8 teams of investigators to support interdisciplinary brain-mind research in 2026-27.
Please help us in congratulating the following teams on their award selection:
- Vineet Augustine, UC San Diego, Neurobiology: Redefining sympathetic ganglia as neuroimmune controllers for body physiology
- Sonja Blumenstock, UC San Diego, Neuroscience: From mutation to movement: Multiscale mapping of circuit dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease
- Adam Bowman, Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Multiplexed imaging of voltage dynamics and neuromodulator release in vivo
- Christian Cazares, UC San Diego, Cognitive Science: Orbitofrontal encoding of social rank information during ethologically relevant social competition
- Sergei Gepshtein, UC San Diego, Cognitive Science: How social context shapes the reward structure of exploration
- Cory Miller, UC San Diego, Psychology: Molecular and behavioral basis of social gaze development in marmosets
- Monique Smith, UC San Diego, Neurobiology and Neuroscience: Empathy beyond the brain: Microbiome mechanisms of social pain
- Sierra Wilson, UC San Diego, Neuroscience: Axonal recordings in humans
A list of current and past recipients is posted on the Innovative Research Grants (IRG) Award Recipients page.