DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders

Projektinformationen

DYNABrain

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 952422

DOI

10.3030/952422

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 22 Juni 2020

Startdatum 1 Januar 2021

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2026

Finanziert unter

• Establishing ‚ERA Chairs’

Gesamtkosten

€ 2 500 000,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 2 500 000,00

Koordiniert durch

CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS E BIOLOGIACELULAR ASSOCIACAO
Portugal

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - DYNABrain (DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders)

Berichtszeitraum: 2024-01-01 bis 2025-06-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

DYNABrain aims to develop, extend and fully unlock the research potential of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), through the implementation of a new interdisciplinary research line in the field of Systems Neuroscience that will synergise and uplift CNC’s flagship research domain, Neuroscience, to the EU/ERA level. It will capitalize on CNC’s installed capacity and research excellence in cellular and molecular Neuroscience and Brain Diseases, and establish an ERA Chair in Systems Neuroscience to incorporate the systems-level of understanding brain function and pathology in CNC core research activity. The field has gained center-stage due to recent advances in technology for recording and manipulating neural circuits at single-cell resolution and in vivo, creating new opportunities to investigate how neuronal networks give rise to behavior, and how alterations in their activity relate with neuropsychiatric diseases and with early stages of neurodegenerative disorders. It will greatly contribute to the development of pioneer strategies to treat brain diseases, or to delay/reduce their socio-economic burden. DYNABrain will thus recruit a research team in Systems Neuroscience headed by an outstanding scientist in the field with proven leadership and management competence, to transversally impact on CNC core research activities and
synergise its complementary research areas. The CNC Neuroscience ecosystem, immersed in the large R&I network of the University of Coimbra, provides the right setting for the successful integration of the ERA Chair. An innovative International PhD Programme in Integrative Neuroscience will be created powered by the ERA Chair expertise that will boost the competitiveness of CNC graduate school and train the next generation of Neuroscientists.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

- Recruitment and integration of ERA Chair holder and eight team members;
- Team installed in independent laboratory and office spaces;
- Purchase equipment and consumables;
- Launch HRS4R;
- Improving the human potential in the field of Neuroscience at CNC through seminars given by leaders in the field;
- Participation in the organisation of training course in soft skills;
- Organisation of international meeting and hand-on course in Sysyems Neuroscience;
- Open call for the International Doctoral Programme in Integrative Neuroscience;
- Identification of partners and submission of consortium proposals, some of which were awarded;
- International conference attendancce of ERA Chair holder and team;
- Short scientific missions to renowned international institutions by team members
- Local talks/seminars/courses given by the ERA Chair holder and the team members;
- Engagement with society through the participation in local, national and european outreach events.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

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