Zhangjiang International Brain Imaging Centre（ZIC）is one of the most advanced brain imaging centres in Asia, located at Fudan Zhangjiang campus and is part of the Zhangjiang National Science Centre.

Starting in 2016, the Shanghai Municipal Government and Fudan University have invested 400M RMB (equal to $65M) to establish ZIC. With an area of 3,000 m², ZIC is one of the largest imaging platforms for brain science and brain-inspired intelligence in China.

As one of the integrated centres of the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), ZIC is committed to become one of the hubs of the International Brain Science Collaboration Project. The centre will play a key role in global endeavors to better understand normal brain cognitive mechanisms, to seek the etiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and to develop a new generation of AI.

Research Directions

Aiming to develop the most advanced imaging technologies and multimodal brain quantification techniques, ZIC will be focusing on three main topics:

Direction I: Development of novel MRI and MRS methodologies

- Coil design

- MR pulse sequence design, image reconstruction and post-processing

- Multi-nuclear MR spectroscopy

- Molecular imaging

- Functional MRI

Direction II: Understanding normal brain cognitive mechanisms and the etiology of brain disorders

- Brain structure and function

- Cognitive neuroscience

- Brain diseases (schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, etc)

Direction III: Developing brain-inspired artificial intelligence

- AI-assisted diagnosis

- Prediction of diseases