How the Human Brain Project can drive brain health innovation

You can now enjoy the slide deck from this ses­sion, which took place at the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th).

How can we har­ness the Human Brain Project to max­i­mize its future health and well-being ben­e­fits? In ear­ly 2013, the Euro­pean Union select­ed the Human Brain Project,  coor­di­nated by Lausanne’s Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (EPFL), as the recip­i­ent of over 1 bil­lion euros/ 1.3 bil­lion dol­lars over the next ten years. How can the research agen­da of this major ini­tia­tive, and close­ly relat­ed ones, be orga­nized and aug­mented with part­ner­ships with the pri­vate sec­tor and cross-sec­tor stake­hold­ers? How can we start build­ing brain heath inno­va­tion plat­forms and deliv­ery sys­tems at the inter­sec­tion of neu­ro­science, IT, and engineering?

• Chair: Hilal Lashuel, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), YGL Class of 2012
• Sean Hill, co-Direc­tor of the Blue Brain Project and co-Direc­tor of Neu­roin­for­mat­ics in the Human Brain Project (HBP) at the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL)