The Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes Selection Committee has awarded the 2023 International Prize to The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a data standard to support the global neuroimaging community. This award recognizes projects, services, tools, and platforms that unlock the power of Open Science in neuroscience to advance research and collaboration for the benefit of all. The prize comes with $25,000 CAD in salary-support funds and $55,000 CAD in unrestricted research funds.
The Prize Selection Committee was unanimous in its praise and support of BIDS for standardizing neuroimaging data with a community-driven approach, which has led to its widespread adoption. BIDS has proven instrumental in many data sharing initiatives worldwide and has set an example for other standards. The Committee was further impressed with the attention paid to the neuroscience community as a whole, and the continuous work towards expanding BIDS to more data modalities.
The award will be presented on November 30th at the 5th Open Science in Action Symposium, held at The Neuro in Montreal.
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NRU's Christmas Symposium will take place on Friday, December 1st, in Rigshospitalet's Auditorium 2, Blegdamsvej 9, entrance 44.
For programme, click here.
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Congratulations to Gitte Moos Knudsen and Cyril Pernet for being co-applicants on the EU infrastructure proposal "EBRAINS 2.0: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health" which has recently been funded by an impressive grant worth ~38 million EUR under the EU grant activity called HORIZON-INFRA-2022-SERV-B-01-01. The NRU share of the grant amounts to 400.250 Euro. A small abstract of the proposal can be found below.
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Congratulations to Prof. Martin Balslev Jørgensen for receiving a scholarstipend grant (132.000 DKK) from the Danish Society of Psychiatry/The Lundbeck Foundation for medical student Guðrún Diljá Ketilsdottir to work on the project' The usefulness of serotonergic activity estimated by EEG loudness-dependent auditory evoked potentials as a marker of sexual dysfunction' with Kristian Reveles Jensen as part of the BrainDrugs-Depression project.
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ECNP press release: Is this how antidepressants work, and why they take weeks to kick-in?
Annette's Molecular Psychiatry paper entitled 'Effects of escitalopram on synaptic density in the healthy human brain: a randomized controlled trial': https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37814129/
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We are happy to announce that Svend Andersen Fonden has granted 750.000 DKK for the purchase of a new High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system.
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Mikael Palner has received 16,500,000 DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) for a new preclinical simultaneous PET/MR to be installed in the brand new preclinical imaging core facility at the new SUND at SDU, which will open in 2024. We congratulate Mikael on the fantastic grant.
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NRU was represented among 82 poster- and 19 oral presenters at the Region Hovedstadens Psykiatris Forskningsdag 2023 by Vibe G. Frøkjær, Kristian R. Jensen, Younes Subhi, Kirstine Howe Andersen, Malthe Andersen, and Søren Vinther Larsen.
Søren was awarded first prize for best oral presentation for the presentation "Depression associeret til brug af hormonel prævention og risiko for fødselsdepression".
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It is with great pleasure that we can announce that NRU senior researcher Brice Ozenne continues his part-time affiliation with NRU through a new 5-year associate professor position at Section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.
Through our close collaboration with Section of Biostatistics, Brice has been affiliated with NRU for the last 8 years, first for five years as a post doc and then for the last 3 years as an assistant professor. With his clear expertise in biostatistics, Brice has contributed greatly to many of our studies and projects troughout the years, and we look very much forward to continuing our collaboration with him.
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We are very happy to announce that NRU senior researcher Lars Pinborg as of September 1st has been appointed clinical professor in neurology with special focus on epilepsy at University of Copenhagen.
As NRU senior researcher and chair of the Danish epilepsy surgery programme Lars has for many years conducted research within epilepsy and advanced imaging. His scientific focus area includes clinical epileptology, molecular and structural neuroimaging, drug resistance in epilepsy, and epilepsy surgery. So far his publication list includes >100 peer-reviewed articles, and on top of that he is also a very active lecturer, teacher and research advisor. Furthermore, Lars is deeply involved in our BrainDrugs research alliance where he is work package leader for WP4-Epilepsy and member of the Executive Board.
We look forward to following Lars' many exciting new research projects that aim to improve the treatment of people with epilepsy.
Danish portrait of Lars published on Righospitalet's webpage is available here: https://www.rigshospitalet.dk/presse-og-nyt/nyheder/nyheder/Sider/2023/september/ny-professor-epilepsi-er-meget-mere-end-anfald.aspx
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- Best Paper Award 2022/23 of the Brain and Spine Journal
- Cyril Pernet part of new EU grant
- Scholar stipend from DPS and travel support from The Company of Biologists
- Travel stipend from the Lundbeck Foundation
- Jens Mikkelsen receives grant from Alzheimer-forskningsfonden
- New DNS scholarstipend for NRU/Pinborg
- Scholarstipend grant from Aarhus University Research Foundation for the BrainDrugs-D project
- NRU annual report 2022
- Update of the NRU webpage
- Gender in Research Fellowship award for Kristian Reveles Jensen