The Virtual Brain was successful in a recent Research and Innovation Call of the European Commission Horizon2020 program with the topic “Exploiting the full potential of in-silico medicine research for personalized diagnostics and therapies in cloud-based environments”.The newly formed VirtualBrainCloud consortium led by Prof. Ritter at Charité Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health comprises 17 European partners and is funded with mill€15. The main goal is to create a cloud-based brain simulation platform that integrates data from many centers and in the future can serve as clinical decision engine for patients with neurodegenerative disease. The consortium took up work in December 2018; the kick-off event for the VirtualBrainCloud took place on January 25th at Charité Univeristätsmedizin Berlin

VirtualBrainCloud consortium:
*PARTICIPANT ORGANIZATION NAME -- PI

University Medicine -- Petra Ritter
University Aix-Marseille -- Viktor Jirsa
Fraunhofer SCAI -- Martin Hofmann-Apitius
University of Oxford -- Simon Lovestone, Alejo Nevado-Holgad
Forschungszentrum Jülich -- Simon Eickhoff, Thomas Lippert
Brain and Spine Institute -- Jean-Christophe Corvol, Stanley Durrleman
Inria -- Bertrand Thirion
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia -- Paul Verschure
University Helsinki -- Matias & Satu Palva
University of Genoa -- Gabriele Arnulfo
Complutense University of Madrid -- Fernando Maestu
Codebox -- Jochen Mersmann
Codemart -- Lia Domide
Eodyne -- Pedro Omedas
University Vienna -- Nikolaus Forgó
Tp21 -- Petra Zalud
Alzheimer Europe -- Jean Georges

Dr. Petra Ritter presents an original talk about TVB at TEDx Padova , about where it all began, what it can do and where it aims to go. Explore some of the possibilities of TVB by watching her inspiring TEDx talk.
Also, be sure not to miss the rare musical musing of Dr. Randy McIntosh snuck into the presentation.

McGill University has featured TVB Co-Founder and Project Lead, Dr. Randy McIntosh, in a recent article published in The McGill Tribune.

The article was initiated after Dr. McIntosh gave a seminar talk at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) on January 10th.

Here he highlighted the emerging role network neuroscience holds in furthering our understanding of brain dynamics and emphasized the importance of a collective adoption to approach research initiatives with an open-science attitude.

Leading TVB scientist Dr. Petra Ritter was invited to speak about The Virtual Brain and its clinical applications at the „Future Medicine“ Science Match 2016 in Berlin, Germany. This conference was part of the Berlin Science Week 2016.

In the Bolle Festsäle "Future Medicine" Science Match brought together the rising stars of science from top institutions in Berlin, Germany, and the world with proven game-changers.

They presented in one day cutting-edge translational medicine and showed how their work will turn advances in life science research into benefits for patients and people. In five sessions the topics Personalized Medicine, Digital Health, Start-Up Ecosystems, Regenerative Medicine and Cell Engineering were discussed.

Developed by German newspaper The Tagesspiegel, Science Match is an innovative format for connecting science, business, society, media and new talent. In keynotes and 3-minute presentations German and international researchers will feature their innovations in life sciences. Attracting up to 800 participants, the target audiences of this event are peers, young professionals, healthcare industry, venture capital, funding institutions and policy makers.