Backyard Brains: Innovative products to help kids learn about neuroscience
“Once we received our Phase I of our SBIR grant, everything changed … I can say with high confidence that we would not be a company today if it were not for the NIMH SBIR program.”
Gregory Gage, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Backyard Brains
The brain is the most complex part of the human body. This three-pound organ is the seat of intelligence, interpreter of the senses, initiator of body movement, and controller of behavior. Lying in its bony shell and washed by protective fluid, the brain is the source of all the qualities that define our humanity. Neuroscientists know quite a bit about how the brain functions, but the tools to understand the brain have been relegated to only large university laboratories, inaccessible to the layperson. Enter Backyard Brains.