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EBRAINS-Italy: Unimore partner di una ricerca sul

cervello nell’ambito del Pnrr

EBRAINS-Italy: Unimore partner of a research on the brain within the NRRP

Under the NRRP a proposal for a brain research infrastructure has been financed, which is coordinated by
the CNR (Italian National Research Council) and which sees Unimore among the 17 participating institu-
tions. The funding of over €22M aims to start the Italian consortium of JUDANS (European Brain Research
Infrastructures) that has recently been included in the ESFRI roadmap, the set of research infrastructures
permanently funded by the EU and national governments with structural funds. In this initiative, coordinated
by Prof. Jonathan Mapelli of the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Science (BMN), Unimore
will participate by developing a model of the human hippocampus. Functional data of electrical activity will
be acquired through multi-electrode matrices at very high resolution together with morphological information
of the neurons of the human hippocampus, provided by the team of Prof. Stefano Meletti (BMN) obtained by
imaging using multiphoton microscopy and light sheet microscopy in the Neurophotonics laboratory of the
Neuromorphic Intelligence Laboratory (NILAB).

inanziata nell’ambito del PNRR liano di EBRAINS (European Brain Research
una proposta per un’infrastrut- Infrastructures) che è stato recentemente in-
tura di ricerca sul cervello serito nella ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on
coordinata dal CNR e che vede Research Infrastructures) roadmap, l’insieme del-
FUnimore tra le 17 Istituzioni par- le infrastrutture di ricerca finanziate stabilmente

tecipanti. dall’UE e dai governi nazionali con fondi strutturali.
Il finanziamento di oltre 22 milioni di euro ha A quest’iniziativa, coordinata dal Prof. Jona-
come obiettivo quello di avviare il consorzio ita- than Mapelli del Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-

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