HBI brings together neuroscience researchers from different parts of Harvard and its affiliated hospitals.
Throughout all that we do, we aspire to build and nurture a scientific community that is diverse, inclusive, and welcoming.
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Harvard Brain Science Initiative
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New research offers the most comprehensive molecular map to date of how smells are detected in the nose and represented in the brain.
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Congratulations to Clifford Woolf on his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences!
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Beautiful photos of our initiative's co-director David Ginty receiving The 2026 Brain Prize from the King of Denmark together with co-recipient Patrik Ernfors. You can read more about the science and the awardees here: brainprize.org/files/media/...
Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the little-understood phenomenon of critical-period closure.
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New research reports that mice can categorize odor sequences based on encounter frequency and reveals how early olfactory circuits encode that information, shedding light on how the brain transforms intermittent sensory signals into useful guidance.
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New research from From Zhengyi Chen, Yilai Shu, and colleagues finds that an experimental gene therapy for people with an inherited form of deafness led to durable hearing improvements, with associated gains in patients’ ability to recognize speech. hms.harvard.edu/news/hearing...
In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published a complete wiring diagram of all the connections between neurons in the central nervous system of an adult fruit fly.
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Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
Congrats to the recipients of the 2026 McKnight Scholar Awards!
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Open-source resource poised to propel research on how nervous systems work
📢 Today @ 4:30pm ET, #KempnerInstitute joins Harvard Alumni; “Kempner Institute: Unlocking Intelligence.”
Learn about our work on the foundations of intelligence.
Featuring @blsabatini.bsky.social, @shamkakade.bsky.social, @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social, and @yilundu.bsky.social.
Watch: bit.ly/4oarIJW
