O Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) opens your new home! On March 26th, the transfer of the facilities from Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS) and the ISD Administrative Headquarters for the Brain Campus, located in Macaíba (RN).

Initially, around 100 people will attend the new infrastructure, including researchers, postgraduate, undergraduate, scientific initiation, high school students and professionals from the administrative sector. The Research Center building, with four floors and 15,000 m² of built area, will be occupied in stages in this first phase of operation. Firstly, the laboratories of electrophysiology, neurorehabilitation, neurobiology, neuroengineering, neuroprosthetics, computational neuroscience, human-machine interface, conventional microscopy, confocal microscopy, neurosurgery, among other areas.

For the director of Teaching and Research at ISD, Reginaldo Freitas Junior, “the new house will allow a qualitative leap in infrastructure, expanding the scientific potential of the Institute and its capacity for interaction with other teaching and research institutions, towards strengthening Brazilian science and the mission embraced by ISD”.

Transfer of the Administrative Headquarters of ISD from São Paulo to Macaíba

The Brain Campus also began to house, in March, the ISD Administrative Headquarters, previously located in the city of São Paulo. With this change, all units of the Santos Dumont Institute are now concentrated in Macaíba, a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte located approximately 20 kilometers from Natal. In addition to the Headquarters and IIN-ELS, the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center (CEPS) also has facilities in Macaíba. This proximity between units further expands the integration between teaching, research and extension actions of ISD in the areas of education and research in neurosciences, neuroengineering, maternal and child health and rehabilitation.

The start of operation of the Brain Campus coincides with the beginning of the second cycle of the Management Contract with the Ministry of Education (MEC), a time when the ISD team finds itself faced with new challenges, goals and impact indicators. “We are making a collective dream come true, which began in 2007 and which has brought together a growing number of people who are now happy to see it come true. There is a lot of dedication and love for work in this project, which is our strength”, comments Freitas Júnior.