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Stockholm University joins EBRAINS

Stockholm University now joins the digital research infrastructure EBRAINS as associate member. The membership is important to strengthen the university´s research on the brain and its relation to behavior.

 

EBRAINS logo

EBRAINS is a digital research infrastructure, created by the EU-funded Human Brain Project , to foster brain-related research and to help translate scientific discoveries into innovation in medicine and industry. This research infrastructure offers an extensive range of brain data sets, atlases, modelling and simulation tools. All academic researchers have open access to EBRAINS’ services.

EBRAINS provides digital tools and services that can be used in brain research and brain-inspired technology development. These may include tools to help researchers collect, analyze, share and integrate brain data and to perform modeling and simulation of brain function. The goal is to understand human brain function and disease.

 

Access to national and international infrastructure

As of January 1 2023 Stockholm University joined EBRAIN as associate member. This membership gives the university access to both national and international infrastructure for brain research, above all software but also the sharing of research data. The EBRAINS related activities at the university will mainly concern SUBIC and research connected to that infrastructure, but also all other brain related research at the University.

 

Expanding brain research at the university

Stockholm University has an expanding interdisciplinary community working in brain research. The university has also several new infrastructures dedicated to the collection of experimental brain data. This growing community, possessing increasing amount of data, will benefit immensely from the EBRAINS services for computational simulations, analysis tools and data sharing.

Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer. Photo: Eva Dalin

“At Stockholm University research on the brain and its relation to behavior, including both basic cellular and molecular research and research using different brain imaging technologies, is currently in a very intense developmental phase. The membership in EBRAINS will further foster this development by giving the university an important platform for collaboration and access to cutting-edge, state of the art, services and tools”, says professor Håkan Fischer at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm university.

CEO of EBRAINS Paweł Świeboda
Paweł Świeboda, CEO of EBRAINS.

"I am delighted to welcome Stockholm University among EBRAINS members. The university brings in its unique expertise in neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology. It has an impressive record of achievement in the study of disorders of the nervous system. I look forward to how we will co-shape the future of the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure together”, says CEO of EBRAINS Paweł Świeboda.
 

 


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.
Read more about EBRAINS

 


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. 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.
Read more about The Human Brain Project (HBP)