Announcing The Winners Of The HBP Infrastructure Voucher Call 2018

    05 April 2019


    Fifteen innovative project proposals have been selected for implementation in the Human Brain Project Joint Platform Infrastructure.

     

    ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE HBP INFRASTRUCTURE VOUCHER CALL 2018

     

    Fifteen innovative project proposals have been selected for implementation in the Human Brain Project Joint Platform Infrastructure.

    The aim of the Voucher Call was to open the HBP Joint Platform Infrastructure to meet the needs of the user community in a new dynamic way: The vouchers fund HBP engineers to solve the technical and scientific questions of the winning proposals via the development of new platform tools.

    The call received 32 eligible proposals from researchers and groups from all over the world, from companies, medical initiatives and academic and non-academic researchers.

    After much thoughtful deliberation of the evaluators, the following winning proposals are announced:

     

    Brain Simulation Platform

    Building Alzheimer Disease Neuron Model (ADNeuronModel)

    Helene Marie (Lead) and Paula Pousinha, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, IPMC- CNRS, France

    HBP contact: Michele Migliore, CNR, Italy

     

    Mapping Brain Circuits in Spatial Navigation (MAPS)

    Andrea Mele (Lead) and Arianna Rinaldi, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy

    University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy

    HBP contact: Michele Migliore, CNR, Italy

     

    Neuronal Dynamics Library and its integration with CxSystem (neurodynlib)

    Simo Vanni (Lead) and Henri Hokkanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Vafa Andalibi, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

    HBP contact: Michele Migliore, CNR, Italy

     

    Multiscale Hippocampal Models for Neuronal Plasticity: Integration to the Brain Simulation Platform (HippoPlasticity)

    Ausra Saudargiene, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania (Lead)

    Bruce Graham and Ashraya Simba Shiva, University of Sterling, UK

    Peter Jedlicka, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

    Martin Mittag, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany

    Justinas Dainauskas, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

    Justinas Mileris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

    Jaroslav Varchola, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

    HBP contacts: Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH, Sweden, Andrew Davison, CNRS, France, Michele Migliore, CNR, Italy

     

    Virtual Mouse CerebNEST (VM-CEREBNEST)

    Alessandra Pedrocchi, Politecnico (Lead), Alice Geminiani and Alberto Antonietti, Politecnico Milano, Italy

    HBP contact: Egidio D´Angelo, UNIPV, Italy

     

    Brain Simulation Platform and Neuromorphic Computing Platform

    Neuromorphic hardware simulations of cerebrocortical-cerebellar loop (SpinnCer)

    Francesco Leporati (Lead), Emanuele Torti, Giorada Florimbi and Giovanni Danese, UNIPV, Italy

    HBP contact: Egidio D´Angelo UNIPV, Italy, Oliver Rhodes, UMAN, UK

     

    Neuromorphic Computing Platform

    "SuperSpike"–Deep on-line learning in accelerated neuromorphic hardware systems (SuperSpike)

    Friedemann Zenke, University of Oxford, UK

    HBP contact: Sebastian Schmitt, Eric Müller, UHEI, Germany

     

    Neuroinformatics Platform

    Interaction between Human Atlas Viewer and The Virtual Brain (IHAVTVB)

    Michael Breakspear, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

    HBP contact: Timo Dickscheid, JUELICH, Germany

     

    Structural organization of memory-related networks in the rat brain: a public repository of microscopic tract tracing data (HIPPOCAMPOME)

    Menno Witter, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway

    HBP contact: Trygve Leergaard, UIO, Norway

     

    Neuroinformatics Platform and Brain Simulation Platform

    Enhancing HBP Model Validation using SciUnit (HBP-SciUnit)

    Richard Gerkin (Lead) and Sharon Crook, Arizona State University, USA

    HBP contact: Andrew Davison, CNRS, France, and Sonja Grün, JUELICH, Germany

     

    Neurorobotics Platform

    Integration of Shadow Dexterous Hand with the HBP Neurorobotics Platform (SHADOW-HBP)

    Radhika Gudipati (Lead), Toni Oliver and Annagiulia Morachioli, Shadow Robot Company, UK

    HBP contact: Alois Knoll, TUM, Germany

     

    High Performance Analytics and Computing Platform

    NEST Desktop (NESTDesktop)

    Stefan Rotter, University of Freiburg, Germany

    HBP contact: Markus Diesmann, JUELICH, Germany

     

    Medical Informatics Platform

    CENTER-TBI data integration with MIP (CTBI-MIP)

    Linda Lanyon (Lead), Pradeep George and Visakh Muraleedharan, INCF, Sweden

    HBP contact: Philippe Ryvlin, CHUV, Switzerland

     

    Collaborative REsearch on ACute Traumatic brain Injury in intensiVE care medicine in Europe (CREACTIVE)

    Guido Bertolini, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Italy (Lead)

    Akos Csomos, Magyar Honvedseg Egeszsegugyi Kozpont, Hungary

    Malgorzata Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz, Medical University Warsaw, Poland

    Rafael Kaps, Splosna Bolnisnica Novo Mesto, Slovenia

    Primoz Gradisek, University Clinical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Theodoros Kyprianou, Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus

    Isaac Lazar, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

    Dimitris Georgopoulos, Panepistimiako Geniko Nosokomeio Irakleiou, Greece

    Luca Antiga Orobix Srl (SME), Italy

    HBP contact: Philippe Ryvlin, CHUV, Switzerland

     

    European Reference Network for rare and complex epilepsies (EpiCARE)

    Helen Cross, University College London, UK (Lead)

    Lieven Lagae, University Hospitals KULeuven, Belgium

    Petr Marusic, Motol University Hospital, Czech Republic

    Milan Brazdil,  Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Reetta Kalviainen, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland

    Kees Braun, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

    Katarzyna Kotulska-Jozwiak, The Children's Memorial Health Institute Warsaw, Poland

    Dana Craiu, Carol Davila University of Medicine Bucharest, Romania

    Mar Carreno, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain

    Rodrigo Rocamora Zuniga, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Spain

    HBP contact: Philippe Ryvlin, CHUV, Switzerland

     

    The winning projects will be implemented by the HBP engineering and developer teams starting as of April 2019 and finishing latest on 31 March 2020 (end of the funding phase). We are already excited to see the projects developing with the new user community.

    We thank all who have participated in the call.

    We appreciated every proposal and would like to encourage all to explore the HBP Joint Platform; and in case you consider a collaboration to apply as a partnering project (non-funded) https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/about/project-structure/partnering-projects/.

     

    A VLSI-Based Neural Network ASIC (Spikey, 384 neurons and about 100000 synapses), Electronic Vision(s) Group, Matthias Hock, University Heidelberg

     

    ENDS