John Hopkins UniversityKavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute

AREAS OF INQUIRY

• NEUROEXPERIMENTS: Creative and rigorous experimentation provides the foundation for biological discovery. Understanding how the brain allows us to perceive, think, and interact with the world requires inventive experiments across multiple biological disciplines and observational scales. Kavli NDI researchers use engineering tools to conduct cutting-edge experiments to monitor and manipulate the brain at different scales.
• NEUROENGINEERING: Discovery in neuroscience is increasingly dependent on developing and applying novel techniques, as underscored by the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative. Kavli NDI develops novel technologies to measure, manipulate, and model brain behavior.
• NEURODATA: Breakthroughs in understanding brain structure and function will depend on our ability to extract insights from large data sets. New neurodata tools, including mathematical and computational science, computing machinery, algorithms, and hardware architectures, will help convert experimental data into discovery, yielding new knowledge and understanding about the brain.