Upcoming Events and Opportunities

Below are a wide range of events and opportunities that may be of interest.

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

• Symposium onMechanisms and Modulations of the Brain Lymphatics System,November 15, 9:30 a.m.-noon ET in Ballroom C, co-chaired by Dr. Inna Belfer of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and featuring leading researchers in this field. This symposium will review mechanistic regulators of glymphatic-lymphatic function.
• Visit NCCIH at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) exhibit (booth 3401). Our program staff will be available to answer your questions and discuss funding opportunities.
• The BRAIN Initiative Alliance will host the Tools, Tech, and Theory Social at the Westin Downtown DC on November 12, from 6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ET.

Symposia Submissions for the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference

The deadline for submitting proposals for symposia for the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference isNovember 20, 2023. The conference will be held in a hybrid format,June 16-18, 2024.

Novel Insights Into Heart-Brain Interactions and Neurobiological Resilience

Dr. Ahmed Tawakol of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School will present the 2023 Stephen E. Straus Lecture in the Science of Complementary Therapies on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from noon to 1:15 p.m. ET. Dr. Tawakol will explain how neural pathways related to stress and depression result in cardiovascular diseases and how lifestyle interventions that promote neurobiological resilience can reduce cardiovascular risk. This virtual event is free and open to all, but registration is required. This lecture series is presented by NCCIH and supported by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health with a generous gift from Bernard and Barbro Osher.

Music as Medicine: The Science and Clinical Practice

The Sound Health Initiative will present a virtual workshopDecember 14-15, 2023. The workshop will highlight recent accomplishments in advancing scientific research on music and health, develop a blueprint for the next phase of research, and further build the research community. This event is sponsored by NIH and the National Endowment for the Arts and jointly organized by NIH, the NEA, the Rene Fleming Foundation, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Feasibility Trials of the NIH Music-based Interventions Toolkit for Brain Disorders of Aging (R34 Clinical Trial Required) Technical Assistance Webinar

Join us onDecember 19, 2023, from 2:003:00 p.m. ET for a technical assistance webinar to learn more about a recently released R34 funding opportunity. This funding opportunity supports proof-of-concept feasibility trials guided by theNIH Music-based Interventions (MBI) Toolkitfor research on brain disorders of aging.

New Training Resources From the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory

The Collaboratory has launched new website features including eight new self-paced, guided video learning modules on conducting pragmatic clinical trials. The revamped training section also includes a newly organized video library, workshops page, and indexed resources page.