U.S. – Japan Brain Research Cooperative Program (BRCP) 2025 Scientific Webinar
We are pleased to announce that we will introduce the Brain/MINDS 2.0 Program during the U.S. – Japan Brain Research Cooperative Program (BRCP) 2025 Scientific Webinar.
To attend, please register in advance using the link below:
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2025: 6:00pm – 7:15pm EST, U.S. | Wednesday, December 10, 2025: 8:00am – 9:15am JST, Japan.
Location: Virtual Meeting | A meeting URL will be provided following registration.
Organized By: The National Institutes of Health (USA), and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (Japan)
Purpose: The goals of the 2025 BRCP Scientific Webinar are to exchange scientific advances in neurological research and to highlight studies that are supported within the program, by the U.S. and Japan.
Program Overview:
In the year 2000, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S., and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki National Research Institutes, Japan, launched a Brain Research Cooperative Program (BRCP) program under an umbrella agreement of “Cooperation in Research and Development in Science and Technology” between the governments of the U.S. and Japan. The purpose of the BRCP is to promote scientist exchange, training, and collaborations in basic, translational and clinical research between neuroscientists from the U.S. and Japan.
For additional information about the program, please see:
U.S. component: U.S.-Japan BRCP
Japan component: https://www.nips.ac.jp/jusnou/eng/
Participating NIH ICs: NINDS, NCCIH, NIBIB, NIDA, NIDCD, NIEHS, NIMH
Speakers:
Dr. John Jay Ngai, NIH BRAIN Initiative Director and Senior Investigator, NIH-NINDS
Dr. Aaron Gitler, Stanford Medicine Basic Science Professor, Stanford University
Dr. Shigeo Okabe, Professor and Director, University of Tokyo, The RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
Dr. Tomomi Shimogori, Deputy Director, The RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
For details, please visit the event webpage.