Grants Database

A Foundation grant to the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University will support a survey of neuroscience students and postdoctoral researchers. The survey will be used to gather insights related to unmet desire of early-career stage neuroscientists to engage with societal issues related to their research.

A Foundation grant to Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) will establish the Neurotech Justice Accelerator at Mass General Brigham, a Dana Center for Neuroscience and Society (NJAM) within the Department of Neurosurgery. The CNTJ will play a leading role in improving equitable access to beneficial neurotechnology, protecting the public from neurotechnology harms, and establishing standards to promote responsible societal use of neurotechnology.

A Foundation grant will support the development of the first in-person neuroethics hackathon at the 2024 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum. The hackathon aims to promote cross-disciplinary exchange on social, ethical, and regulatory issues related to advances in neuroscience that have an impact on diverse publics.

A Foundation grant will support the creation of the Dana Foundation Career Network in Neuroscience & Society. The Career Network’s goal is to expand and support the next generation of neuroscience and society students, practitioners, and scholars.

This grant will support a program for a cohort of undergraduate students who will participate in a year-round professional development program.

A Foundation grant will support a project entitled “Partnering With the Neurotechnology Industry: An Embedded Ethics Pilot Program”.