Best Abstract Award Goes to Sebastian Bludau und Timo Dickscheid
Sebastian Bludau and Timo Dickscheid from INM-1 received the Best Abstract Award for Neuroscientific and Medical Research during the EBRAINS Summit 2025, held from December 8 to 11, 2025, in Brussels. The title of their abstract: “Layer-specific cell counts in BigBrain – decomposing cortex-wide numbers based on cytoarchitectonics” (additional authors: Anna Steffens, Christian Schiffer, Eric Upschulte, and Katrin Amunts).
Best Abstract Awards for Methodological developments, technology, and AI applications in neuroscience went to Renqing Cuomao, Raphaël Gazzotti, Sophia Pieschnik, Oliver Schmid, Peyman Najafi, Andrew Davison, Cyril Pernet, and Lyuba Zehl for “bids2ebrains: Automating BIDS Dataset Registration into the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph”, as well as to Amirhossein Esmaeili, Giacomo Preti, Spase Petkoski, Marmaduke Woodman, Meysam Hashemi, Daniele Marinazzo, and Viktor Jirsa for “The Virtual Aging Brain: A Scalable Framework of Dopaminergic Modulation.”