The Human Connectome Project (HCP) was a five-year project launched in 2009 by sixteen institutes of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The HCP pursued its research through two separate consortia. It began in July 2009 as the NIH’s first major challenge in the field of neuroscience. On September 15, 2010, the NIH announced funding for two consortia. A grant of $30 million over five years was awarded to a consortium led by Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota, in collaboration with the University of Oxford (FMRIB). Another grant of $8.5 million over three years was awarded to a consortium led by Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
The objective of the HCP was to produce a comprehensive map of the network of brain connections, revealing facts about the structural and functional connectivity of different regions of the healthy human brain. The data generated by the project also facilitated existing research on brain disorders associated with autism, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and dyslexia (reading and word-recognition disorders).
The project was officially closed and terminated on November 28, 2017.
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