The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has launched a centre to generate and study human brain data. The centre plans to focus on high-resolution brain imaging and has an ambitious project to map human brain at the cellular and connectivity level.
The clinical partners for the project are medical teams led by three doctors — George Varghese of CMC Vellore; Anita Mahadevan of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Science, and J. Kumutha of Saveetha Medical College Hospital. The centre would be headed by Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam of IIT Madras.
K. VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor, IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti, and the institute’s distinguished alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan and Sudha Gopalakrishnan, who support the centre, participated.
