The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) has registered Marmosync, software developed at the institution to manage experimental protocols for evaluating the brain behavior of animal models, as industrial property with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). The software is the first technology registered through the ISD's Technological Innovation Center (NIT), inaugurated in 2025.
Created as part of the master's thesis in neuroengineering by graduate Ingrid Queiroz, under the guidance of research professor Andressa Radiske, Marmosync was designed for experimenting with behavior using animal models in research aimed at investigating brain function.
The software simultaneously coordinates the presentation of visual and auditory stimuli, the recording of behavioral videos, and the acquisition of electrophysiological signals, ensuring temporal precision between all events in the experiment.
Researcher Andressa Radiske emphasizes that, in addition to its main functionalities, Marmosync also allows synchronization with external electrophysiological data acquisition systems, ensuring the integration of behavior, stimuli, and neural activity for reliable and reproducible analyses in research with non-human primates.
The technology is part of one of the research lines of the Postgraduate Program in Neuroengineering (PPGN) at ISD, which aims to develop pharmacological, molecular, and electrophysiological studies of the formation and modification of the behavioral expression of fear in animal models.
ISD Technological Innovation Center
In 2025, ISD inaugurated its Technological Innovation Center (NIT) to, through a commission, work on processes involving creations developed in the Institute's laboratories. The new strategy aims to manage internal innovation policy and improve licensing, intellectual property protection, and technology transfer, among other responsibilities.
With Marmosync, the Center is implementing the first software developed and maintained entirely by the ISD. Currently, another software registration request is being evaluated for registration. To increase visibility and facilitate these registrations, flowcharts have also been created for students and researchers, and the integration of NIT's dissemination with other professors in postgraduate courses is being organized.
About ISD
The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) is a Social Organization of the Federal Executive Branch, supervised by the Ministry of Education, with the intervention of the Ministry of Sport. It encompasses the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience and the Anita Garibaldi Center for Education and Research in Health, both located in Macaíba. The ISD's mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research, and outreach activities, as well as contributing to a more just and humane transformation of Brazilian social reality.
