“The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative (FNI) is an innovative, non-incremental policy initiative designed to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying, in a collaborative fashion, federal research efforts across brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development. The initiative aims to coordinate research across agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. The initiative promotes research and discovery across brain cognition, development, disease and injury…
Congressman Fattah has successfully secured millions of dollars in increased neuroscience funding for the National Science Foundation in addition to setting the precedent for continued growth by incorporating neuroscience language in every Congressional spending bill since 2011.
An amendment championed by Congressman Fattah passed in 2011, directing the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to establish an Interagency Working Group on Neuroscience (IWGN). The IWGN was chartered on June 20, 2012 to coordinate neuroscience research activities across the federal government; the group is led by NSF and NIH, and includes nearly 40 representatives from more than 20 agencies, departments, and institutes. In 2014, the IWGN released a final report with recommendations about the future of neuroscience and ways that the government can accelerate progress in brain research.
Additionally, The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative helped initiate a formal collaboration between the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry to boost private sector investment in brain research. Most recently, legislation has directed OSTP to identify new opportunities for international neuroscience collaboration, and has recommended specific advances in medical imaging research and the creation of a National Brain Observatory.”
National Brain Observatory?? #Drooling
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