Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

R. Deriche and the Athena team has been awarded by an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC AdG agreement No 694665 “Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping” started on Sept. 1st, 2016.)

Guillermo Guallardo, PhD has been awarded by a Merit Abstract Award by the 2016 OHBM Annual Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for his work entitled Efficient Population-Representative Whole-Cortex Parcellation Based on Tractography  [34].

Press coverage

Brain-Computer Interfaces developped in Athena attracted attention of the media, at regional and national levels: Nice Matin, Le Dauphiné Libéré and Le Figaro Santé have published articles about our translational research on the P300 speller. This system enables severely disabled patients, who are deprived of voluntary motor control, to communicate by using only their visual attention.