News & Press Releases

A new study that started in the Human Brain Project (HBP) - and was enabled by EBRAINS - introduces a framework for including astrocytes into large-scale simulations of brain networks.

Berlin, Germany — The 9th BigBrain Workshop (27-29 October 2025) in Berlin brought together leading researchers to explore the frontiers of ultra-high-resolution, multimodal brain data, modelling, and mapping, and to strengthen the links between EU and Canadian neuroscience.

An international team of researchers has successfully applied the recently developed imaging technique ComSLI (Computational Scattered Light Imaging) to brain sections prepared using a wide range of methods, enabling the visualization of the brain’s complex fiber network with micrometer precision. This achievement marks an important advance that opens new possibilities for neuroscience and biomedical research—such as renewed, in-depth analyses of existing tissue sections. Their findings have now been published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

Brussels, 22–23 September 2025 - The Virtual Brain Twin (VBT) consortium gathered in Brussels for two days of intensive discussions, reviewing progress and shaping the next phase of one of Europe’s most ambitious neuroscience projects.

Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, will deliver a welcome address at the EBRAINS Summit 2025.

The image was gifted on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of The Netherlands Brain Bank.

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the European Commission, will deliver the welcome address at the EBRAINS Summit 2025.

The EBRAINS 2.0 project is developing new tools and services available on the infrastructure for the benefit of the scientific community. Here is a selection of highlights from the project so far.

Despite the important role of the hippocampus in many cognitive processes of the human brain, there has so far been no unified system to record, jointly present, and analyze the structure and function of this region using different measurement methods.

The Jülich Brain Atlas is now the new standard atlas in AFNI, a widely used open-source tool for analyzing and visualizing functional MRI data. The atlas is an important resource for the neuroimaging community and provides detailed parcellations of brain regions based on microstructure.

On Tuesday, 9 December, the EBRAINS Summit closes its public day with a unique art-science performance in Brussels: Your Brain on Beethoven.