Despite huge progress in brain research, much about the brain’s vascular system remains a mystery. With CARAVEL, we aim to shed light on this hidden architecture and its role in health and disease. This ERC grant gives us the resources to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Professor Maria A. Zuluaga
05 December 2024
€2 Million ERC grant awarded for studying the brain vessel tree
A €2 million Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) has been awarded to the CARAVEL project for analysis of neurovascular images at multiple scales.
Prof Maria A. Zuluaga, Visiting Senior Lecturer within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and assistant professor at the Data Science department at EURECOM (Sophia Antipolis, France) has been awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
The €2 million grant will support her artificial intelligence for medicine project, CARAVEL, which aims to revolutionize the analysis of neurovascular images at multiple scales.
A collaboration between EURECOM, King's College London, and Nice University Hospital, the CARAVEL project seeks to develop the first population-level multi-resolution spatiotemporal atlas of the ageing vascular architecture of the brain.
CARAVEL will enable physicians and researchers to test hypotheses about the brain’s vascular network, contributing to innovations in diagnostics, treatment, and preventative medicine. Its focus on creating reproducible and robust methodologies ensures that the tools developed will have lasting and scalable benefits for both research and clinical practice.
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