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We have launched a new website for our Developing Human Connectome Project funded by an ERC Synergy Grant. You can visit the website here.

“UK scientists have embarked on a six-year project to map how nerve connections develop in babies’ brains while still in the womb and after birth. By the time a baby takes its first breath many of the key pathways between nerves have already been made. And some of these will help determine how a baby … Continued

Professor Daniel Rueckert from the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) Group, in conjunction with colleagues Professor David Edwards and Professor Joseph Hanjal from King’s College London and Professor Steve Smith from the University of Oxford, has been awarded a prestigious new ERC Synergy grant that promote partnerships in academic research. Entitled ‘The Developing Human Connectome Project’ … Continued

EPSRC and Action Medical Research have awarded a £1.1M healthcare partnership proposal to our group and our colleagues at Hammersmith Hospital. The aim of this project is the creation of tools and algorithms that enable the detection and diagnosis of abnormal brain development based on high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information. More about the project … Continued