Press release
20 Oct 2022EBRAINS welcomes Umeå University as new associate member
EBRAINS is pleased to announce that Umeå University – the flagship university of northern Sweden – has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member.
The membership went into effect on 1 July 2022. It will give Umeå University 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.
Formally established in 1965, Umeå University is a comprehensive university covering research and education in medicine, science and technology, social sciences, arts and humanities, and educational sciences. Umeå University will contribute to EBRAINS by making available molecular, cellular, morphological and physiological research data, including imaging data from PET and MRI, as well as developed analysis tools and computer models.
“We will seek to benefit from access to specialised and very powerful computational resources, help with data structuring and annotation. My own group has just developed a new technique to annotate our physiological data with anatomical coordinates with high precision - this will probably be the first service that we now intend to integrate into EBRAINS.”
Department of Integrative Medical Biology in Umeå University
“We are happy to welcome Umeå University. It brings with it not only an impressive array of molecular, cellular, morphological and physiological research data but also an innovative set of annotation techniques which will allow EBRAINS users to obtain better insights when working with data."
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.
Media Contact
Pedro Teixeira
Tel.: +32 499 90 70 44
pedro.teixeira@ebrains.eu
