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News & Upcoming Events

SPARC Channel on bioRxiv

Keep up with the latest SPARC-supported research on the new SPARC channel on bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology.

New NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (RFA-DK-20-020)

NIH invites applications to establish research programs for qualified trainees to engage in neuroscience research using SPARC resources. Letters of intent are due Oct 9, 2021 and full applications are due Nov 9, 2021.

Connecting the Research Community

The (SPARC) experience has been bigger than what one lab can accomplish on its own, and I love seeing all of the different aspects come together to solve a large-scale problem.

— Heather Clark, Northeastern University

We all genuinely want to try and help the clinical outcomes...SPARC has provided me with a much clearer route for being able to use my work in a clinical setting.

— Janet Keast, University of Melbourne

The exact signals that go to the heart and the lungs may be slightly different, the paths are conserved between those organs, and so there's an immense amount that can be learned by interacting with other teams that are also working on different organs.

— Pradeep Rajendran, University of California, Los Angeles

The NIH Common Fund’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program aims to transform our understanding of nerve-organ interactions with the intent of advancing bioelectronic medicine towards treatments that change lives.