EPFL GENEVA

Located in Geneva, Campus Biotech hosts EPFL centers and laboratories, whose professors, researchers and collaborators actively participate in scientific advances in the fields of neurosciences, digital neurotechnologies and global health.

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Blue Brain builds neurons with mathematics

Published:06.04.22 — EPFL’s Blue Brain Project has found a way to use only mathematics to automatically draw neurons in 3D, meaning we are getting closer to being able to build digital twins of brains.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Credit: Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)

The fruit fly: tiny research hero now fully mapped

Published:07.03.22 — A large international consortium creates the first complete atlas of all fly cells.

Since his stroke in 2019, François R. has been involved in various research programs with the Hummel laboratory at the Clinique Romande de Réadaptation (Sion). © Jamani Caillet, EPFL 2021

Studying the human body to drive scientific progress

Published:03.03.22 — Human biology is the research focus of a number of EPFL labs, where scientists conduct clinical trials with volunteers to design therapeutic interventions and to learn more about how the body functions. Here, we take a closer look at the work of Prof. Friedhelm Hummel, who is developing therapies for stroke survivors.

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Centers and institutes

Paraplegic athlete Silke Pan brilliantly represented EPFL at the 2020 Cybathlon

Center for neuroprosthetics

In partnership with the Bertarelli Foundation, the Defitech Foundation and Medtronic, EPFL created at Campus Biotech a world-class research center, the Center for Neuroprosthetics (CNP), which concentrates its activities on the issues of rehabilitation, brain-computer interfaces and the development of new prosthetics.

wireless microelectrodes aims to detect the location of epilepsy in the brain

Blue Brain Project

The aim of the EPFL Blue Brain Project, a Swiss brain research initiative founded and directed by Professor Henry Markram, is to establish simulation neuroscience as a complementary approach alongside experimental, theoretical and clinical neuroscience to understanding the brain, by building the world’s first biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mouse brain.

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Global Health Institute

Researchers at the Global Health Institute develop and apply new technologies to investigate human health and infectious diseases spanning from basic to translational sciences.

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