The BRAIN initiative: a pioneering program on the precipice

Cory T Miller^#¹, Xiaoke Chen², Zoe R Donaldson^{3

4}, Bianca Jones Marlin^{5

6}, Doris Y Tsao⁷, Ziv M Williams⁸, Moriel Zelikowsky⁹, Hongkui Zeng¹⁰, Weizhe Hong^#^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Cortical Systems & Behavior Lab, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. corymiller@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. xkchen@stanford.edu.
³ Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. zoe.donaldson@colorado.edu.
⁴ Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. zoe.donaldson@colorado.edu.
⁵ Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. bjm2174@columbia.edu.
⁶ Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. bjm2174@columbia.edu.
⁷ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. dortsao@berkeley.edu.
⁸ Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. zwilliams@mgh.harvard.edu.
⁹ Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. moriel.zelikowsky@neuro.utah.edu.
¹⁰ Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA. hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org.
¹¹ Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. whong@ucla.edu.
¹² Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. whong@ucla.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Cory T Miller et al. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;27(12):2264-2266.

doi: 10.1038/s41593-024-01811-3.

Cory T Miller^#¹, Xiaoke Chen², Zoe R Donaldson^{3

4}, Bianca Jones Marlin^{5

6}, Doris Y Tsao⁷, Ziv M Williams⁸, Moriel Zelikowsky⁹, Hongkui Zeng¹⁰, Weizhe Hong^#^{11

12}

¹ Cortical Systems & Behavior Lab, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. corymiller@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. xkchen@stanford.edu.
³ Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. zoe.donaldson@colorado.edu.
⁴ Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. zoe.donaldson@colorado.edu.
⁵ Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. bjm2174@columbia.edu.
⁶ Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. bjm2174@columbia.edu.
⁷ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. dortsao@berkeley.edu.
⁸ Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. zwilliams@mgh.harvard.edu.
⁹ Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. moriel.zelikowsky@neuro.utah.edu.
¹⁰ Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA. hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org.
¹¹ Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. whong@ucla.edu.
¹² Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. whong@ucla.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: H.Z. is on the scientific advisory board of MapLight Therapeutics, Inc. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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