EAGER From Genomics to Brain Science: What Makes Researchers Tick in Transdisciplinary Initiatives

从基因组学到脑科学的渴望：是什么让研究人员在跨学科计划中发挥作用

• 批准号: 1738163
• 负责人: Ioannis Pavlidis
• 金额: $ 6.04万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Genomics; Brain; Science; What

The transdisciplinary formation between biology and computing fostered the transformative achievement of decoding the human genome. Decoding the functionality of the human brain is similarly posed to usher in a new era of biomedical and technological advancements. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative is a federally funded umbrella program aimed to streamline research efforts in brain science in the United States. The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a competitive initiative funded by the European Union, which shares the same goal with BRAIN but pursues different policies, organizational strategies and incentive structures. The result is different multilevel processes integrating people, ideas, scientific cultures, and institutions in the same transdisciplinary challenge. Examined together, these two projects offer a base for comparisons of the impact of science and innovation policy interactions on collaborations among scientists. The project build a dataset that funding and publication sources, with faculty databases to capture the interactions among scholars fromvarious disciplines and ecosystems. Statistical and network tools identify patterns of collaboration and their evolution as a result of the BRAIN and HBP policy intervention. Qualitative feedback in the form of interviews from key players identified via the quantitative methods, will support nuanced interpretations of the results and guide extensions and policy recommendations.

生物学和计算机之间的跨学科形成促进了解码人类基因组的变革性成就。破译人类大脑的功能同样预示着一个生物医学和技术进步的新时代的到来。通过推进创新神经技术进行大脑研究（Brain）计划是一项由联邦政府资助的伞形计划，旨在简化美国脑科学的研究工作。人类大脑计划（HBP）是由欧盟资助的一项竞争性计划，它与Brain有着相同的目标，但奉行不同的政策、组织策略和激励结构。其结果是不同的多层次过程，将人、思想、科学文化和机构整合在同一个跨学科挑战中。这两个项目结合在一起，为比较科学和创新政策相互作用对科学家之间合作的影响提供了一个基础。该项目建立了一个资金和出版物来源的数据集，与教师数据库一起捕捉来自不同学科和生态系统的学者之间的互动。统计和网络工具确定了协作模式及其演变，这是BRAIN和HBP政策干预的结果。通过定量方法确定的主要参与者的访谈形式的定性反馈将支持对结果的细微解释，并指导扩展和政策建议。