The Kavli Institute for Neuroscience is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Kavli Innovative Teams Award.

The Kavli Innovative Teams Awards are seed grants to Yale investigators to support the creation of innovative teams that tackle established questions with the goal of seeding future large-scale program grant applications. Many major questions in neuroscience can be solved only by assembling teams of skilled researchers using multiple established techniques to achieve progress where no one laboratory can succeed alone. By seeding innovative project team creation, initial support from Kavli has the potential to lead to long-term support from extramural sources.

The 2025 Kavli Innovative Teams Award recipients are:

• Cristina Rodriguez & Emilia Favuzzi, for their project: “Visualizing ‘immune engrams’ using three-photon imaging through the skull”
• Sviatoslav Bagriantsev & Benjamin Machta, for their project: “Using functional studies and information theory to comprehend the neuroscience of touch”