Introduction

The Centre is devoted to building the largest multimodal, multiscale and multicenter datasets for biomedical science (brain science), and developing computational approaches in analyzing these datasets. The Centre is carrying out multidisciplinary researches across neuroscience, psychology, medical science, mathematics, and computer science, and promoting researches on precision medicine and personalized medical care for brain diseases, cancers, cardiovascular disease, etc. Applying and developing advanced machine learning and statistical approaches, and other brain-inspired AI methods to discover diagnostic biomarkers in genes, neuroimaging and cognitive functions for diseases, the Centre aims at improving the accuracy and efficiency of clinical diagnosis and drug evaluation for these diseases. Combining data-driven approaches with medical and biological experiments, we are working on unraveling the mechanisms of brain diseases and quantifying the human brain functions.


Research Directions

DirectionI:Multiscale brain database construction

Combining HCP (Human Connectome Project), UK Biobank and other large international databases, and our own collections of clinical and healthy cohorts, we aim at constructing the largest brain database in the world for science and clinical applications.

Direction II:Computational brain diseases

Cross-disciplinary methods are applied to study the etiology of major brain diseases such as depression, schizophrenia, autism and substance abuse, and to identify pathological basis for clinical treatments.

Direction III: Brain function analytics

Using noninvasive measurements and multiscale big database, we intend to precisely predict various indicators of the human brain such as creativity, happiness and perseverance. The research results are expected to be translated into researches on brain-inspired intelligence.