Dr. Dura-Bernal was awarded his own 5-year $1.2M NIH grant to develop a tool to build detailed models of brain circuits spanning the molecular, cellular, and network scales (see publication). This modeling tool has been used in over 40 labs across the world. One of the project's goal is to make this tool user-friendly enough so that the “non-computational community” (including students and clinicians) can use it to, for example, model circuit deficits underlying specific neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, or predict outcomes of specific neuromodulatory techniques.
More details on the grant can be found here: https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9882763
