The symposium focused on the ways in which engineering research can be brought to bear in better understanding the nervous system and treating injury and disease.

According to witnesses on the highway, the suspects – later identified as Carter and Briean Brown – pulled up alongside the victims' car and fired shots. Emery then crashed into the median.

“It is seductive to compare this project to the Human Genome Project,” said Emery Brown, a neuroscientist and anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an advisor to the BRAIN ...

According to witnesses on the highway, the suspects – later identified as Carter and Briean Brown – pulled up alongside the victims' car and fired shots. Emery then crashed into the median.