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IIN-ELS expands international partnerships in neuroengineering

11/04/2017

Text: Luiz Paulo Juttel / Ascom – ISD

Photos: IIN-ELS Disclosure

In February, the researcher of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS), Fabricio Brazil, traveled to the United Kingdom and Germany to discuss possibilities of cooperation with scientists from University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Tubingen It is Freiburg. In addition to sharing the work developed at IIN-ELS in the area of neuroengineering, collaborative research strategies were designed associated with the recovery and rehabilitation of people with Acquired Brain Injury, Parkinson's, Stroke, deafness and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The main motivation for such joint research is the great potential for developing multicenter studies that compare recovery protocols for certain neurological conditions in patients from both continents. “This type of study allows one institution to complement the work of another and helps to prove the global validity of the protocols studied,” explains the IIN-ELS researcher.

The collaboration between the Institute of Neurosciences and British institutions began in May 2016, at the “Workshop of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (NpR) of People with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)”, held in Curitiba with funding from Newton Fund. For five days, 18 Brazilian and 18 English researchers shared information about acquired brain injuries and identified actions needed to tackle the problems in a multicultural way.

During the event, groups were formed to structure research projects to be carried out at institutions in both countries. The project developed by researchers from IIN-ELS and partners (including Helen Dawes, from Oxford Brookes University, and Nele Demeyere, from the University of Oxford) was a finalist at the event, giving rise to this new stage of in-depth development of the proposal, carried out in February of this year and funded by the Newton Fund. Projects resulting from this interaction between Brazil and England will be submitted to new calls for research funding.

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