# Wellcome Discovery Award **Entity class:** Event or historical development **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Research funding award **Date in source:** May 2025 **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - [[wiki/Gregory Jefferis|Gregory Jefferis]] and [[wiki/Elizabeth Marin|Elizabeth Marin]] secured the award described in the source. - The funded objective is a whole-brain connectome of the female [[wiki/Aedes aegypti|Aedes aegypti]] mosquito. - Collaborators include [[wiki/Wei-Chung Allen Lee|Wei-Chung Allen Lee]] and [[wiki/Meg Younger|Meg Younger]]. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **FlyWire: Whole-Brain Completeness at Insect Scale** provides the narrative context for **Wellcome Discovery Award**: In May 2025, Jefferis and Elizabeth Marin secured a Wellcome Discovery Award to produce 'A whole-brain connectome of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito,' in collaboration with Wei-Chung Allen Lee (Harvard Medical School) and Meg… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->