A graphene nanodevice to better understand the brain

Pedro Alpuim

  • PROJECT LEADER

    Pedro Alpuim

  • HOST ORGANIZATION,
    COUNTRY

    Laboratorio Iberico Internacional de Nanotecnologia (INL), Portugal

  • DESCRIPTION

    Neurological disorders affect more than a quarter of the world's population. They all share alterations in the communication of neurons, in which the chemical and electrical signals of the brain do not work correctly.

    Lack of knowledge about the brain hinders progress in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases. One of the reasons is the lack of tools to investigate the brain and its neural connections.

    The project uses graphene nanotechnology, molecular biology, and neuroengineering to develop and validate a new device that can monitor neurons' chemical and electrical messages to understand the brain further.

  • PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

    • Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Spain

    • Universidade do Minho, Portugal

  • PROJECT TITLE

    Graphene aptasensor bioelectronics: a neural interface for neurotransmission probing in neurological disorders

  • BUDGET

    €997,692.19