About the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)
The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) carries out fundamental neuroscience research with special emphasis on the brain and the visual system.
The research is multidisciplinary and comprises various levels of biological complexity:
- genetic and molecular approaches
- cellular approaches and network function
- system approaches
The research is aimed at fundamental mechanisms, the development of normal functioning, the cause of disorders, and the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies
About the Netherlands Brain Bank (NBB): http:/www.brainbank.nl
The NBB is a department of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and considered worldwide as an excellent brain bank performing rapid autopsies with impressively short post mortem delays of donors that gave informed consent for the use of their brain and clinical files for research. Since its start in 1985, the NBB has provided tissue from 2806 autopsies of which 700 Alzheimer's disease, 124 Parkinson's disease, 1000 controls and 1100 other diseases to 400 research projects all over the world, resulting in 600 papers. The NBB has 2000 registered donors.
About Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is strongly committed to the
advancement of health care, through research and innovation. In particular,
the focus is on translational research, with the overall aim to accelerate
findings from the laboratory to clinical application, and to the market.
LUMC has a reputation as a pioneering institute, both nationally and
international
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