❗️ Deadline extended to January 31st! What to expect from this workshop? ✔ Lots of group interactions ✔ Insightful career sessions ✔ Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Monique Breteler on people’s health across their life span ✔ Guided tour of DZNE campus missionlucidity.com/cure-nd

🚨 Register now for Alzheimer's Research UK's 2024 conference, taking place on 19-21 March in Liverpool! A fantastic opportunity to connect with other dementia researchers & learn about exciting research taking place in the UK & beyond. Register before 3 March⬇️ buff.ly/4b64AW8

"This is a milestone for Neuralink, not for science." Sebastian Haesler puts news of chip implantation in human subjects into perspective in this nice piece by Arthur De Meyer in Nieuwsblad.be today 👇 (article in Dutch) nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf2024013…

👏 Congratulations Augustine Therapeutics and Ludo Van Den Bosch (Ludo Van Den Bosch) from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research for receiving a 'The ALS Association' (The ALS Association) Grant to accelerate a novel potential therapeutic option for ALS patients! Read more here: vibbio.tech/3uGd4mK

Join us at MINDSEED 2024 to learn more about what #neurotech is already capable of today. Talks and debates will focus on the great potential of neurotech in medical applications and beyond. 🗓️ March 18, 2024 at 19:00 👉Group T campus Leuven More info: ntxl.org/mindseed

What a start! Dr. Sarah Jewell (DZNE Research Center) welcomed us warmly, then Dr. Monique Breteler (DZNE Research Center) delivered fascinating insights on healthy aging from the Rheinland Study she's leading. Packed room! Stay tuned 😎 #CUREND Forschungszentrum DZNE UK Dementia Research Institute Mission Lucidity Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute

Great career advice from an outstanding panel of speakers at the CURE-ND ECR workshop: ‘science gives you an unparalleled skillset, ‘build on the skills you already have’, ‘enhance your skills’, ‘stay positive’.

#CURE-ND ECR workshop 2024 and the winners are…. best poster Arabella Bouziges Paris Brain Institute and best talk Helena Balanin Mission Lucidity. Congratulations

Congratulations to the prize winners! 👏

✨ We had the pleasure of welcoming European Research Council (ERC) to VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research last week, and took them on a tour of our Center! Find out more about their visit ⬇️ or take your own virtual tour at 360.cbd.vib.be 🔬

New research is crucial to understand & treat Alzheimer's, which is predicted to triple by 2050. A recent study led by De Strooper Lab (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) and MINDlab (VIB Center for Molecular Neurology) sheds light on the role of microglia, immune cells in the brain, in Alzheimer's.👉 vibbio.tech/49c6pyL

🏆 Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek - Fondation Recherche Alzheimer selected 15 research projects from VIB this year to invest a record amount of 3️⃣ million euros! Congratulations to all 👏 VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research VIB Center for Molecular Neurology IRC - VIB/UGent vibbio.tech/3TMq2aK

🎉 Great news, #LeuvenBrainInstitute is organizing for the 2x time #Breinfestijn - a fundraiser for brain research 🧠 📚A selection of our top scientists will present their research & our house band, the Big Brain Band, consisting of musician-researchers, provides the music 🎶

So grateful that we’ve been invited to participate in the Big Brain Theory Program! Here’s to great collaborative, inspiring & innovative projects ahead 🙌 Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Patrik Verstreken (Verstreken Lab, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) for winning the Tauopathy Challenge Workshop™️ grant from the The Rainwater Charitable Foundation, CurePSP, and the AgingMindFoundation to advance his neurodegenerative research! Read more: vibbio.tech/3zyHPvQ

💙For #WorldAlzheimerDay, our researchers will take part in the Leuven Night Run on September 21st to raise awareness about Alzheimer's Disease. Any donations raised will go to Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek (SAO). Support, donate, and share ↘️ action.stopalzheimer.be/nl_NL/team/res…

Heb jij je tickets al voor Breinfestijn?🎟️ Door tickets te kopen, steun je belangrijk onderzoek & initiatieven die bijdragen aan een betere kwaliteit van leven voor mensen met een hersenaandoening 🧠 Koop dus snel je tickets & mis dit unieke event niet! kuleuven.be/brain-institut…

✨We are excited to announce that Prof Sten Linnarsson will give the opening keynote at #BrainMosaic24, focussing on the spatial organization of human brain cancer. Curious who else is coming? Check the stacked line-up here: vibbio.tech/3WRAsaO 🗓️Early bird deadline: 29 August

💾 Introducing Brain-on-Chip, technology addressing one of the main barriers to studying Parkinson's: the lack of access to brain tissue 🧠 Carles from the Verstreken Lab explains in this short film that premiered at #Breinfestijn Leuven Brain Institute ➡ youtube.com/watch?v=43RI43…

Welcome to the LBI head quarters and looking forward working more closer together