Invitation Become a neuropartner October 20 2011

Submitted by asoetermeer on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:42

The Maastricht Health Campus provides a unique and challenging environment for cooperation, valorisation and open innovation in Life Sciences and Health.


An important initiative within the campus is “Brains Unlimited”, a project which will create a European Centre of Excellence in ultra high field Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Maastricht, the Netherlands. 

Brains Unlimited translates the fundamental knowledge of the brain into applications and novel therapies by offering world-class research and education in the field of mental health, neuroscience and neurophysics. It also offers an entrepreneurial environment that includes an incubator where new businesses can be hosted and supported as they develop novel products for release to the market.  Important scientific partners of the Brains Unlimited project include Forschungszentrum Jülich, Maastricht University (Medical Centre+), Maastricht Brain Imaging Center and Siemens Healthcare. 

To bring the Neuroscience community in our region together; key scientists, clinicians and entrepreneurs will come together on Thursday October 20th to discuss the opportunities arising from this initiative.  Whilst the intention is for the event to be focused on the topics important to the attendees; it is envisaged that the discussion will be based upon the different areas where Brains Unlimited can bring benefit to the wider community and which have the potential for building collaborations between organisations.  These will likely include research, valorisation and applications in the fields of (amongst others):

  • Clinical research – extending to the entire body, and ranging from disease biology to drug development
  • Software development
  • Medical diagnostics
  • Neurofeedback
  • Physics – including the development of MRI hardware

as well as the provision of a new Professional Masters course for education in the physics, data processing and applications of MRI.

We cordially invite you to join us at this meeting and contribute to its success.

As a participant you will have the opportunity to learn more about how the Brains Unlimited project can help you address your current and future challenges, but also how you can contribute to its development.  You also have the opportunity to meet your peers and explore future collaborations. Our goal is that we become NeuroPartners.

Brains Unlimited, become a NeuroPartner
MECC Maastricht
Thursday 20th October
13:00h-18:30h

Programme:

13.00

Registration; please bring extra business cards!

13.30

Plenary session with panel discussion, moderated by Simone van Trier

15.00

Coffee break

15.30

Group discussion

16.30

Plenary discussion and conclusions

followed by networking

18.30

End of the meeting


You can register for this event before September 25 by sending an email to: info@neuropartner.nl.
We kindly ask you to submit a “tweet” (140 characters) to indicate what your primary interest is in Brains Unlimited and what you hope to contribute to the programme.
2 weeks before the meeting you will receive the final programme, a list of attendees, and their tweets. The meeting will be in English.

English