17.12.2008
Tübingen Excellence Cluster on integrative neurosciences is officially opened
The Werner Reichardt-Centrum für integrative Neurowissenschaften (Centre for Integrative Neuroscience – CIN) is now officially open. As part of the Excellence Inititiave by the State of Baden-Württemberg and the country, this Excellence Cluster will now be supported annually with a sum of 6.5 million Euros per annum.
The CIN consists of working groups from six faculties from the Universität Tübingen and works in association with other renowned institutes including the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart.
In order to ensure the flow of young scientists, the CIN will contain two complementary Graduate Schools as well as an integrated Post Graduate College which will be dedicated to the training of international students and doctoral candidates in neurosciences (Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences/International Max-Planck-Research School, Graduate School of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience). This will be further complemented by a school lab for neurosciences with the aim of inspiring talented young people to take up a degree with a focus on neurosciences.
By the end of 2009, the CIN will have eight new international professorships which are to cover the new areas of research. In the final phase, the CIN aims to have over several hundred scientists from varying disciplines working together.
The scientists at the CIN aim to further contribute to the worldwide quest for understanding how the brain generates functions such as perception, memory, communication and action. A better comprehension of the brain mechanisms underlying these functions and their disturbances, from their genetic basis to the processing of information in neuronal networks, will lead to the development of new approaches thus aiming to help patients with sensory and brain disease. Moreover, it will stimulate the development of improved biomedical instrumentation and brain-inspired engineering solutions.
www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de
