Aix-Marseille Université is strengthening its contribution to the European research landscape by joining EBRAINS, a new digital research infrastructure created by the Human Brain Project (HBP) and partly funded by the European Union, which brings together a wide range of data and tools for brain research.
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The cutting-edge capabilities made available to European researchers via the HBP are designed to help them tackle major brain health challenges, benefiting from the knowledge of data science, brain organization and artificial intelligence gathered within the HBP.
This associate member status will give AMU's neuroscience community, already heavily involved in the HBP, the opportunity to co-design future versions of the cutting-edge tools and services offered by EBRAINS. Some researchers are already using the infrastructure, such as Professor Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (UMR 1106 Inserm/AMU), to power the Virtual Epileptic Patient (VEP), a computer tool that enables scientists to locate the areas of a patient's brain where epileptic seizures occur.
Testimonials from researchers
Pr. Maxime Guye of the Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRBM, CNRS/AMU), expertise: Neuroimaging and IR
"This partnership offers the opportunity to collaborate with outstanding multidisciplinary scientists and increase the value of our widely available neuroimaging data through EBRAINS to which we contribute by providing a unique multimodal, multiscale whole-brain quantitative parameter data set specifically designed to enable the testing and validation of personalized multiscale brain models of BPH."
Associate Professor Stéphane Delliaux at the Centre de recherche en CardioVasculaire et Nutrition (C2VN, AMU/CNRS) and the Institut d'établissement Laënnec, expertise: Digital sciences for health
"This partnership with EBRAINS is crucial to benefit from the highly specialized knowledge of a world-leading project with the aim of extending digital sciences to health beyond the brain alone. We are catalysts for the development of digital health and the valorization of hardware (instrumentation) and software (medical decision support) digital technologies, research and care databases, and work in ethics, law and customs."
Dr. Andrea Brovelli of the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT, AMU/CNRS), expertise: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
"Within the HBP, I coordinate research that develops data- and model-based approaches for analyzing and modeling interactions between brain regions during cognitive processes. Our aim is to share developments on EBRAINS, including computational and neuroinformatics tools, with regard to inferring cognitive functional connectivity from human brain data and validating models based on this empirical information."
Article originally published in Lettre d'AMU, February 2022.
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