New DARPA initiative builds on basic research. Three groups of researchers who have received support from the National Institutes of Health will obtain funding from the President’s BRAIN Initiative to improve artificial limb technology. The new awards will be funded and administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will build on the fundamental discoveries that were made possible by NIH support.

“These projects speak to the power of integrated government-funded science. NIH support enables bright inquisitive scientists to develop whole new areas of research. Now, as part of ambitious DARPA projects, these groups will have the opportunity to turn their discoveries to benefit amputees, particularly those brave men and women who lost their limbs defending our country,” said Walter Koroshetz, M.D., acting director of the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), one of the institutes that supported the research.

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