President & CEO of StressMarq Biosciences Inc., a research reagent company with primary product lines in neurodegenerative diseases and cellular stress based in Victoria (BC), Canada. Successful Senior Scientific Business Executive with demonstrated expertise growing markets ... revenues, product pipelines and expanding technical organizations into new business opportunities. Educational and business management experience in global markets, with quantified success in moving technical businesses into new international arenas. Author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, and holder of several patents.

Dr. Cecchi received an education in Physics (MSc, Argentina), Physics and Biology (PhD, The Rockefeller University), and Imaging in Psychiatry (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Medical School). He directs IBM Research's program on Computational Psychiatry and Neuroimaging, pioneering ... the use of a computational linguistics approaches to quantify psychiatric conditions from short speech samples, applying it successfully to conditions as diverse as schizophrenia, mania, prodromal psychosis, chronic pain, neurodegeneration, drug and alcohol intake, and psychotherapy. Dr. Cecchi also serves as Associate Director for Analytics in NIH's Advancing Medicines Partnership® - Schizophrenia.

Dr. Ashley Feinsinger is bioethics faculty in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Her research pursues questions at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of language, and neuroscience, with a focus on invasive basic brain research in ... humans. She received her PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, completed the Medical Education Fellowship from DGSOM at UCLA, and Advanced Training in Health Care Ethics Certification from the University of Washington. She has published on a range of topics, including medicalization and the ethics of non-therapeutic research with implanted devices. Funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative, she leads a neuroethics lab focused on understanding patient-participant motivations for enrolling in invasive brain research. Through comparing patient values with those of researchers and the public, she aims to incorporate the patient perspective in research design. Her approach to neuroethics is interdisciplinary, collaborating with neurosurgeons, behavioral psychologists, and patient-participants to address conceptual questions about exploitation and trust, as well as practical questions about patient engagement and consent.

Dr. Paul J. Mathews received his bachelors degree from the University of Oregon where he studied invertebrate behavioral plasticity in the lab of Dr. Nathan Tublitz. He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin under the mentorship of Dr. Nace ... Golding. Dr. Mathews work focused on understanding how the biophysical properties of specific voltage-gated ion channels in an auditory brainstem nuclei contribute to their capacity to make sub-millisecond computations necessary for low frequency sound localization. For the past several years Dr. Mathews has been working at UCLA under the mentorship of Dr. Tom Otis where he is currently working to uncover the cerebellar circuit mechanisms that underlie motor learning and memory. To do this Dr. Mathews is utilizing a multifaceted approach that includes both in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, advanced optics, histology, and behavioral manipulations to make links between cerebellar circuit activity and motor output in rodent models. He is currently on the job market looking for a tenured track assistant professor position.

I am an affective and systems neuroscientist leading the Translational Neuromodulation Lab in the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine. My lab seeks to leverage targeted neural stimulation, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience tasks to ... understand the neural bases of affective and social cognitive dysfunction. This program of research has led to the identification of a novel stimulation-based strategy for evoking positive affect and anxiolysis, for which our team has a United States Patent awarded. I was honored when this project was selected as the featured cover article at the Journal of Clinical Investigation, with coverage by the NIH Director's Blog4. This nascent program of research has garnered academic and public media attention, and I am fortunate to serve as PI on a variety of NIH-funded projects in the intracranial research domain (KL2TR000455, K01MH116364, R21NS104953, R01MH127006).

Dr. Kari Johnson is a Program Director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Her portfolio includes BRAIN Initiative projects that are aimed at large-scale, high resolution mapping of local and long-range neural connectivity. In addition to brain mapping ... technology, Kari's interests as a Program Director include interdisciplinary team science and programs that support workforce development in the neurotechnology space. Prior to joining NINDS in 2023, Kari was on the faculty of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD), where her lab studied basal ganglia circuits involved in reinforcement learning and behavioral flexibility.

Dr. Jeffrey Kopsick is a Health Program Specialist supporting the BRAIN Connectivity across Scales (CONNECTS) portfolio and the Neurotechnology & Integrated Systems Cluster within the BRAIN Initiative. Jeffrey's interests include supporting programs developing and scaling brain ... mapping technology, that deepen our understanding of the nervous system while distilling principles for advancing and scaling intelligent, energy-efficient, and adaptive computing technologies, and that create multi-modal knowledgebases. Prior to joining the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, he received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from George Mason University and B.S. in Mathematics from James Madison University.