# Brown University

**Source**: https://bulletin.brown.edu/bibs/
**Parent**: https://bulletin.brown.edu/azindex/

The mission of [The Robert J. & Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science](https://www.brown.edu/academics/brain-science/) is to promote discovery and innovation in brain science by supporting a diverse community of experimentalists, theorists, engineers, and clinicians. The institute does this by recruiting and retaining world-class faculty, creating an outstanding collaborative training environment, seeding innovative projects, supporting collaborative teams, and raising the visibility and reputation of Carney researchers.

With more than 200 affiliated faculty members in 20 departments and clinical units, the Carney Institute is pursuing research that has real-life, human applications, including: brain-computer interfaces to aid patients with spinal injury and paralysis; innovative advances in computational neuroscience to address behavior and mood disorders; development of bioluminescent molecules to detect and control neuronal activity; development new methods for labeling neural circuits; and research into mechanisms of neurodegeneration as part of efforts to identify therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s disease. Critical to Carney’s research efforts are the contributions of hundreds of graduate and undergraduate researchers and postdoctoral fellows.

The Carney Institute recruits and retains world-class faculty, funds innovative projects, establishes and supports state-of-the-art research facilities, and acquires shared equipment. The Institute also provides expertise and personnel to help faculty members garner and administer multi-investigator grants for research, infrastructure, and training, as well as to manage collaborative research projects.