We will present our recent work The Virtual Brain Cloud - Towards personalized multi-scale brain simulation using neuroimaging cohorts for Alzheimer's disease research at the 15th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease AD/PD 2021.

Der Tagesspiegel has published an article on the latest advances in AI in medicine, covering the upcoming Future Medicine Congress and The Virtual Brain.

Read the article (in German) [here](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/kuenstliche-intelligen

Brain Simulation Section has become a GOLD member of the International Neuroinformatics Facility (INCF).

Brain Simulation Section will be represented in INCF board meetings and contribute to INCF working groups.

Find out more about the INCF here.

We are happy to announce the first release of the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) 0.1.0. You can watch a short demo video here.

The VRE is now undergoing evaluation by the Berlin State Data Protection Commissioner. Upon approval the VRE will go into operation. If you have questions or wish to request access, please contact

Petra Ritter has been elected by the Steering Committee of Research Platform Digital Medicine as a spokesperson on the BIH Research board. Additional elected spokespeople are Sylvia Thus and Felix Balzer.

The trio will be representing the platform on the BIH Research Board. Find out more about **Research Platform Digit

We congratulate our lab leader, Petra Ritter, on becoming a finalist at the Falling Walls Remote conference with her contribution "Breaking the Wall to the Virtual Brain". We wish her well in this “Breakthrough 2020“ competition!

The Falling Walls series and competition is in memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and asks the question, "which walls still remain, and which will be broken next?

Interested in giving a presentation about your research?

Apply now with your project for the Future Medicine Science Pitch until October 11th, 2020!

Open for scientists and clinicians at any stage in their career using artificial intelligence to do work relevant to translational and systems medicine.

Deadline for submission of short abstracts is 11 October 2020.

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