Project

VirtualBrainCloud

The overarching goal of The Virtual Brain Cloud (TVB-Cloud) is personalized prevention and treatment of dementia. To achieve generalizable results that help individual patients, The Virtual Brain Cloud integrates the data of large cohorts of patients and healthy controls through multi-scale brain simulation using The Virtual Brain (or TVB) simulator. There is a need for infrastructures for sharing and processing health data at a large scale that comply with the EU general data protection regulations (or GDPR). The VirtualBrainCloud consortium closes this gap, making health data actionable. Elaborated data protection concepts minimize the risks for data subjects and allow scientists to use sensitive data for research and clinical translation.

TVB-Cloud is a project of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and infrastructure facility of EBRAINS.

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Brain Atlas Web App

Try our interactive Brain Atlas web app now!

You can flip, rotate, and click around this online 3D model to learn about the different regions of the brain and their functions.

Available in: English, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Polish, Spanish.

 

Open the Brain Atlas web app

News

XIV Annual Conference of the Health Cluster Portugal

29 November 2023 in Lisbon, Postugal

The XIV Annual Conference of the Health Cluster Portugal, themed "Health Business Portugal" is set to convene on November 29, 2023 at the University of Lisbon, in Portugal.

This year's conference delves into pivotal topics at the intersection of health, innovation, and economic development, and is invited Prof. Petra Ritter to provide her insights among other specialists in the field.

For more details about this enlightening event and to register, please visit the official conference website here.

The VirtualBrain Cloud project results featured in Cordis

A recent Cordis "Results in Brief" article spotlights our project's groundbreaking work in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.

Read the article.

SciDataCon at International Data Week 2023

23-26 October 2023 in Salzburg, Austria

SciDataCon 2023, nestled within the framework of International Data Week 2023, and supported by esteemed institutions such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, GIScience, and the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information, is taking place in person on October 23-26 in Salzburg, Austria.

Prof. Petra Ritter is invited as panel speaker in the discussion titled "Standards for a FAIR Data Future: How to Advance Standardization in Data Management?", scheduled for October 26, 2023, from 09:30 to 11:00. This session delves into the critical role of standardization in research data management (RDM), focusing on the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

For more details and registration information, please visit the official IDW 2023 website.


33rd Alzheimer Europe Conference

16-18 October 2023 in Helsinki, Finland

Participate at the 33rd Alzheimer Europe Conference which will be organised in Helsinki from 16 to 18 October 2023 in collaboration between Alzheimer Europe and Muistiliitto, the Alzheimer’s Society of Finland.

This year’s conference will be focusing on “New opportunities in dementia care, policy and research”.

Visit the official website of the event.

 

World Health Summit 2023

15 - 17 October 2022 in Berlin, Germany & Virtual

Join the World Health Summit 2023 taking place from October 15th to October 17th, 2023 in Berlin, Germany and digitally.

This year’s World Health Summit will focus on "Science, Innovation, and Policies" by reflecting on the most pressing topics, including a session on the "Global Testing and Experimentation Facilities for Health AI and Robotics" that we are organizing.

Registration and program on the official website of the event.

MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar: "Exploring Interpretable Brain Models" with Prof. Petra Ritter as Panelist

27 September 2023, Online

Explore the Future of Brain Modeling: Join the MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, from 17:00 to 19:00 CEST, online, with Prof. Petra Ritter and other experts discussing 'Moving towards Interpretable Models of Functioning Brains For Adaptive Real-World Behavior and Sustainable Health.

Register for the event and find more information on the official website.

Conferences & Events

Meet the team at SfN 2022 in San Diego

The TVB-Cloud Team will be exhibiting at Neuroscience 2022 along with its partner The Virtual Brain at the Booth 3116.
The SfN 2022 annual meeting is taking from November 12 to November 16, 2022, in San Diego, USA.

Visit the official website of Neuroscience 2022 event.

Visit The Virtual Brain website for the SfN activities.

 

9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop

| Digital Event

The 9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop is taking place online on next October 7, 2022 from 11:30 to 15:00 (CEST).

The purpose of this Workshop Series is to discuss existing interfaces and workflows of TVB on EBRAINS that have been developed in SGA2 and those under development or being planned for SGA3.

Download the program.

Register to the workshop.

8th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop

| Digital Event

TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows - 8th Virtual Workshop will be held on March 25th.

The purpose of this Workshop Series is to discuss existing interfaces and workflows of TVB in EBRAINS that have been developed in SGA2 and those under development or being planned for SGA3.

Please register for the event here.

Important Links

Latest Publications

Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing

In Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38626-y

Research data management and data sharing for reproducible research - Results of a community survey of the German National Research Data Infrastructure Initiative Neuroscience

In eNeuro
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0215-22.2023

 

Scale-Free Functional Brain Networks Exhibit Increased Connectivity, Are More Integrated and Less Segregated in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease following Dopaminergic Treatment

In Fractal Fract
DOI: 10.3390/fractalfract6120737

Consortium

VirtualBrainCloud partners

The world-leading experts in clinical research on neurodegenerative diseases and mathematical modelling develop a computational platform for translational research that integrates clinical data from molecular biology and neurology, using nonlinear systems theory as framework. Central to this platform is a multi-scale multi-omics brain model that spans spatiotemporal scale from molecules to organs and from nanoseconds to years.

 

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