A federal government study of the impact of the project indicated that it returned $800 billion by 2010. It was begun in 1990 and its goal, the mapping of the complete human genome, or all the genes in human DNA, was achieved ahead of schedule, in April 2003. The Human Genome Project cost $3.8 billion. Scientists involved in the planning said they hoped that federal financing for the project would be more than $300 million a year, which if approved by Congress would amount to at least $3 billion over the 10 years. We probably won’t spend less money, but we will probably get a lot more bang for the buck.” “If you look at the total spending in neuroscience and nanoscience that might be relative to this today, we are already spending more than that. Church, a Harvard University molecular biologist who helped create that project and said he was helping to plan the Brain Activity Map project. “The Human Genome Project was on the order of about $300 million a year for a decade,” said George M.
The initiative, if successful, could provide a lift for the economy. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, may have inadvertently confirmed the plan when he wrote in a Twitter message: “Obama mentions the #NIH Brain Activity Map in #SOTU.”Ī spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy declined to comment about the project.
Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation.” They’re developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs, devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful. “Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s. “Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy - every dollar,” he said. In his State of the Union address, President Obama cited brain research as an example of how the government should “invest in the best ideas.” The details are not final, and it is not clear how much federal money would be proposed or approved for the project in a time of fiscal constraint or how far the research would be able to get without significant federal financing. And, four scientists and representatives of research institutions said they had participated in planning for what is being called the Brain Activity Map project. The project, which could ultimately cost billions of dollars, is expected to be part of the president’s budget proposal next month.
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