The brief

Analyst view

• ARIA is a £800M+ UK fund for moonshot research, modeled after DARPA.
• Precision Neurotechnologies commits £69M over four years for 19 teams on circuit-level brain interfaces.
• Targets Alzheimer's, epilepsy, addiction and depression via cell-type-specific brain modulation.

Technical approach

As reported

Circuit targeting

Cell-type-specific stimulation

Research to target specific neural circuits and cell types with precision.

Hybrid design

Biology with electronics

Teams combine hardware, bioinspired interfaces and synthetic biology approaches.

Minimally invasive

Non-invasive and remote methods

Workstreams cover non-invasive, remote, biological and adoption approaches.