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FLANDERS: A HUB FOR BRAIN RESEARCH

Discover on May 16, 2011 how Flanders moves the frontiers of brain research at the launch of the European Human Brain Project and the official opening of the NERF (Neuro-electronics Research Flanders) labs at imec, Leuven.

With the launch of NERF in 2009 and Flanders participation in the Human Brain Project, led by Switzerland’s EPFL, Flanders has put brain research high on its research agenda. This world-changing research aiming at understanding and mimicking the way the brain works could result in:
• new diagnostic tools and treatments for brain diseases,
• new prosthetic technologies for people with disabilities,
• a new class of low energy information technologies with brain- like intelligence,
• a new generation of intelligent robots.

NERF (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders), a research initiative empowered by imec, VIB and K.U.Leuven and supported by the Flemish government, aims at unraveling the functioning of the brain through collaborative, interdisciplinary research combining nanoelectronics with neurobiology. It intends to push the boundaries of science, by zooming in on the working of neurons at an unprecedented level of detail. In the long run, NERF will generate new insights in the functional mapping of the brain, as well as research methodologies and technologies for medical applications, i.e. diagnostics and treatment of disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system.

Today, at the opening of its unique research infrastructure, NERF proudly announces that it will participate in the Human Brain Project. The HBP aims at building biologically detailed simulations of the complete human brain and to create the informatics, modeling and supercomputing technologies necessary to do so. HBP brings together everything we know and everything we can learn about the inner workings of the brain's molecules, cells and circuits, collect the knowledge in massive databases, and use it to build biologically detailed simulations of the complete human brain. This prestigious project is shortlisted by the EU as one of the candidates for its FET Flagship Program.

Target audience
Stakeholders, academia and industry, as well as journalists

How to attend?
Entrance is free of charge but registration is required.
Please register before May 10, 2011.