BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) Meeting – May 2025

Friday, May 09, 2025 | 12:00
Online
A confocal image of sparse GCaMP6f-expressing Purkinje cells in mouse cerebellum resembles the industrious contours of pre-dawn commuters with the NIH BRAIN Initiative logo overlaid.

The BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG), which is a group of experts in neuroethics and neuroscience that serves to provide the NIH BRAIN Initiative with input relating to neuroethics, will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, May 9, 2025. The meeting will be videocast and available for live viewing and later archived.

Videocast available for public viewing.

Time (ET)Agenda Item
1:00 pm

Welcome

Dr. Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, NEWG Designated Federal Official

1:05 pm

Update from the BRAIN Director 

Dr. John Ngai, Director, NIH BRAIN Initiative

1:15 pmRoundtable Updates
1:30 pm

Session: Potential ethical challenges with digital brain twins

Drs. Viktor Jirsa, Arleen Salles, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jana Schaich Borg, and Vincent Conitzer

4:00 pm

Overview of the Implantable BCI Collaborative Community (iBCI-CC)

Ms. Jen French and Dr. Michael Young

4:30 pmAdjourn