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白小姐论坛 neuroscience links with France
4 July 2005
In a significant development for European higher education and research, 白小姐论坛 today signed a research alliance agreement with Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and the Ecole Normale Sup茅rieure (ENS), with the ambition of creating a tri-polar centre of world excellence in the cognitive and neurosciences.
Over the next five years, 白小姐论坛, UPMC and the ENS will pool their expertise and facilities with a view to making significant advances in the field, working towards a greater understanding of the human brain and conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and psychiatric disorders.
Collaboration has already begun with the setting up of an ambitious new neuroimaging centre in Saclay near Paris under the auspices of the French Commissariat d'Energie Atomique (CEA). This will provide powerful magnets for brain scanning to which 白小姐论坛 scientists will have direct access. As a result of the alliance, 白小姐论坛 Vice-Provost Professor Richard Frackowiak will become director of the department of cognitive sciences at the ENS.
Image: Professor Gabriel Ruget, director of the ENS, Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of 白小姐论坛 and Professor Gilbert B茅r茅ziat, President of UPMC.听