Press release
13 Oct 2022EBRAINS welcomes Institut du Cerveau as new associate member
EBRAINS is pleased to announce that Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM) – an internationally renowned research centre – has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member.
The membership went into effect on 1 August 2022. It will give ICM the opportunity to co-design future iterations of EBRAINS’ cutting-edge tools and services. These state-of-the-art capabilities – which cover data sharing, atlasing, modelling, simulation, high-performance computing, and neurorobotics – aim to help European researchers to address major challenges in brain health, benefiting from insights into data science, brain organization, and artificial intelligence gathered from the EU Flagship Human Brain Project.
Created in 2010, the Institut du Cerveau is an international scientific and medical research centre of excellence, located in Paris at the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. Its innovative model brings together patients, doctors, researchers and entrepreneurs with a common goal: to understand the brain and accelerate the discovery of new treatments for nervous system diseases. The Institute thus includes a network of more than 700 researchers and clinicians (AP-HP, Sorbonne University, Inserm and CNRS), 10 cutting-edge technological platforms, 1 clinical investigation centre, 1 training organisation and more than 2,000m² dedicated to incubating startups. Since 2017, it has also been the health partner of Station F; this location gives it a competitive advantage in the field of connected health.
“Joining the EBRAINS research infrastructure is a great opportunity for our institute. We will be able to continue the work initiated by our teams within the framework of the Human Brain Project with the hope that innovative medical applications will be developed very quickly for the benefit of patients and society."
Director of the Institut du Cerveau
"We are delighted to welcome Institut du Cerveau as a member of EBRAINS. As one of Europe’s leading research centres, it brings with it a wealth of expertise of its 25 scientific teams, covering a range of areas from cognitive neuroscience to computational modelling. We will easily build synergies in our joint effort to understand brain mechanisms at multiple scales."
CEO of Ebrains
About EBRAINS
EBRAINS is a new digital research infrastructure (RI), created by the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP), to foster brain-related research and to help translate the latest scientific discoveries into innovation in medicine and industry, for the benefit of patients and society.
It draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and offers an extensive range of brain data sets, atlases, modelling and simulation tools, easy access to high-performance computing resources and to robotics and neuromorphic platforms.
All academic researchers have open access to EBRAINS’ state-of-the art services. Industry researchers are also very welcome to use the platform under specific agreements. For more information about EBRAINS, please contact us at info@ebrains.eu or visit https://ebrains.eu/
EBRAINS is listed on the ESFRI roadmap
About the Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is the largest brain science project in Europe and stands among the biggest research projects ever funded by the European Union. It is one of the three FET Flagship Projects of the EU. At the interface of neuroscience and information technology, the HBP investigates the brain and its diseases with the help of highly advanced methods from computing, neuroinformatics and artificial intelligence and drives innovation in fields like brain-inspired computing and neurorobotics.
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