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Skip to content Skip to search Skip to footer Innovation Search Menu Search for: Search Close Close Ecosystem Impact Process Innovations NEURO360 &＃8211; Advancing neuroscience technologies to improve cognitive wellness (MO, IL) NSF Engines Development Award Purpose and Vision NEURO360, led by Washington University in St. Louis (a top ranked research university), and BioSTL (a coalition driving the regional innovation economy), brings together over 20 partners from academia, industry, community organizers, and venture capitalists to align priorities and design pathways toward achieving our vision in use-inspired research, workforce development, translation, and partnership functions of an engine rooted in neuroscience. Through analysis and planning, but more so through innovative piloting and iterating on developing interventions, NEURO360 will identify the next steps necessary to mature St. Louis’ developing neuroscience ecosystem into a nascent Engine, primed for national emergence and regional growth. NEURO360’s vision is to stimulate a thriving, inclusive, sustainable neuroscience ecosystem in the St. Louis region that will improve wellness in underserved communities, address neurobiological health disparities, and inspire accountable, innovative, human-centered practices and technologies of the future. The aspiring Engine would capitalize on St. Louis’s nationally recognized research in neuroscience and neurotechnology, a new academic neuroscience research building that will be the largest in the country opening in 2023, and recent momentum by academic, corporate, philanthropic, civic, and community leaders to strategically improve the economy through innovation and entrepreneurship. Lead Organizations In collaboration with Expected Outcomes and Broader Impacts Our aspiring Engine will target the following high-level goals to prepare for a Type-2 Proposal and lay the foundation for a robust, sustainable, neuroscience innovation ecosystem. Build a collaborative and aligned partnership network across multiple sectors and organizations Solicit expert input and develop processes to define a regional use-inspired R&D portfolio that addresses technical gaps as well as well-being, belonging, and justice for underserved communities Leverage a consortium of experts to rank priority areas for translational funding by the Engine and to enable follow-on investments to ensure that companies remain in the region Implement and improve plans to equitably develop and recruit expertise that will enhance the regional talent pool (executives, entrepreneurs, scientist) to support emerging ecosystem needs Demonstrate through culture, activities, and partnerships that DEIA is meaningful and critical to the success of the partnership network Establish an evaluation framework with well-defined milestones and indicators against which performance of the Engine will be measured at specific checkpoints. Through the planning and pilots of this work, our aspiring Engine will demonstrate St. Louis’ capacity to define R&D potential in neuroscience and link proposals to emerging ecosystem components, enabling cluster growth and driving regional economic impact. After two years, our work will have laid the foundation to support the next steps for an impactful Engine that will address global societal challenges around neurological and psychological disorders, grow the St. Louis economy, and enable the U.S. to be on the forefront of global innovation through neuro-inspired practices and technologies. For more information about the NSF Engines program and other awardees, visit the NSF Engines program website. Leadership Team Eric LeuthardtCo-Founder/Chief Scientific OfficerWashU (Co-PI)Engine Co-Lead Translation Co-Lead Eric GulveRetired Executive Vice PresidentBioSTL (Co-PI)Engine Co-DirectorTranslation Co-Lead Joyce Balls-Berry Associate Professor of Neurology WashU Use-Inspired R&DCo-Lead Lori BeckerChief Operating OfficerStarkloff Disability InstituteWorkforce Co-lead Dedric CarterVice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Economic Development & Chief Innovation OfficerUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillExternal Advisory Board Chair Faybra JabulaniDirector of Racial Equity Capacity Forward Through Ferguson DEIA Co-lead Justin RaymundoDirector of Workforce StrategyBioSTLWorkforce Co-Lead Linda RichardsChair – Dept. of NeuroscienceWashUUse Inspired R&DCo-Lead Natalie SelfSr. VP, Equitable Econ. ImpactCortex Innovation CommunityDEIA Co-Lead Operations & Administration Juliana Amaral PassipieriDivision Administrator WashU Grant Lead Brian ManchisiSpecial Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Innovation WashU Finance Lead Ben JohnsonSenior Vice President, Programs BioSTL Evaluation Lead Katherine ScheidhauerProgram Coordinator WashU Operations Lead Contact MSC 1082-414-2555 1 Brookings Drive | St. Louis, MO 63130 [email protected] Twitter LinkedIn SectorsDiagnostics Energy & Environment Med Tech Physical Sciences Therapeutics ©2024 Washington University in St. Louis
