Simons launches $80 million collaboration on brain energy use

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Published Saturday, November 14, 2026 · 4:18 AM EST

The Simons Foundation has launched a ten-year collaboration that will provide $80 million to 26 investigators studying how energy supply constrains brain computation. The Simons Collaboration on Brain Energetics will combine neuroscience, cellular biology, engineering and theory to examine how cells and circuits allocate energy and respond to metabolic stress. Researchers plan to develop sensors that track glucose and ATP, an energy-related molecule, through cells. Studies will span worms, flies, mice and humans, with a commitment to open data. The program will investigate energy use and adaptation; its sensor development and research findings are still prospective.

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