Grant-funded work

Funded projects

17 projects

Our work is supported by leading institutions committed to advancing neuroscience data standards and tools.

17 projects

active

NeuroData AI Summer School

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · Started July 2026

A five-year NIH R25 research education grant for a residential summer school on reanalysis of open neurophysiology data and AI methods for neural data, formerly NeuroDataReHack

completed

IBL Data Curation

International Brain Laboratory · Started August 2025

Converting International Brain Laboratory datasets, including the Brain Wide Map, to NWB and publishing them on DANDI

active

GuPPy Development

Michael J. Fox Foundation · Started August 2025

Turning GuPPy, the Lerner Lab's fiber photometry analysis tool, into a sustainable platform for Parkinson's disease research

active

SFARI ARC Spyglass

Simons Foundation · Started October 2024

Standardizing autism research data into NWB and Spyglass

completed

Drosophila Sensation U01

National Institutes of Health · Started August 2024

NWB conversions for five fly labs on a BRAIN Initiative U01 studying multisensory flight control in Drosophila

completed

NYU Librarians NWB Adoption

New York University · Started April 2024

NYU Libraries support for converting data from two NYU neuroscience labs to NWB and publishing it on DANDI

active

VAME Development

Gladstone Institute · Started January 2024

Development of VAME (Variational Animal Motion Embedding) for behavioral analysis

completed

SCPAB NWB Adoption

Simons Foundation · Started July 2023

Simons Foundation support for converting whole-brain Drosophila imaging data from a Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain lab to NWB

completed

Voluseg Development

Vanderbilt University · Started June 2023

Development of Voluseg for volumetric segmentation of calcium imaging data

completed

SpikeInterface Development

Simons Foundation · Started January 2023

Simons Foundation support for CatalystNeuro's contributions to SpikeInterface, the open-source Python framework for spike sorting

active

ASAP NWB Adoption

Michael J. Fox Foundation · Started January 2023

Converting data from Parkinson's disease research labs in ASAP's Collaborative Research Network to NWB and publishing it on DANDI

completed

NWB Community Liaison

Kavli Foundation · Started January 2022

Kavli Foundation support through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for Ben Dichter's role as the NWB community liaison

active

DANDI Archive NIH Grant

National Institutes of Health · Started September 2021

Our work as a contractor to MIT on the DANDI Archive's web application, documentation, example notebooks, and data tools

active

Neurodata Without Borders NIH Grant

National Institutes of Health · Started April 2021

A BRAIN Initiative U24 to LBNL and CatalystNeuro for NWB training, support, and software, including NeuroConv and cloud work

completed

NWB Widgets

Allen Institute · Started April 2020

Interactive Jupyter widgets for exploring NWB files, developed with Allen Institute support and since replaced by Neurosift

completed

SCGB NWB Adoption

Simons Foundation · Started July 2019

Simons Foundation support through the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain for converting SCGB lab data to NWB

completed

Ripple U19 NWB Adoption

National Institutes of Health · Started June 2019

A BRAIN Initiative U19 on hippocampal sharp-wave ripples that funded our NWB conversions, extensions, and ROIExtractors work