News Designing proteins with their environment in mindPublished:30.01.25 — EPFL researchers have developed a computational method to explicitly consider the impact of water while designing membrane receptors with enhanced stability and signaling, paving the way for novel drug discovery and protein engineering.Two winners of the 2024 BMI Thesis PrizePublished:23.01.25 — For the first time, the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) has awarded its prestigious Thesis Prize to two exceptional PhD graduates, Simona Adele Garobbio and Domenic Burger, recognizing the outstanding quality of their research.Brain models draw closer to real-life neuronsPublished:22.01.25 — Researchers at EPFL have shown how rough, biological spiking neural networks can mimic the behavior of brain models called recurrent neural networks. The findings challenge traditional assumptions and open new doors in computational neuroscience and even AI.