The Translational Brain Diseases Centre of the Fahrenheit Union of Universities evolved from the Brain Diseases Centre at the Medical University of Gdańsk.

The original vision of the Centre—developing translational research projects—remains at its core and will continue to be pursued. However, the rapid advancement of clinical neuroscience calls for a multi-domain approach, involving a wide range of basic science research techniques and disciplines, including those traditionally considered distant thematically. It also demands attention to the diverse pathophysiological nature of brain diseases.

In response, the permanent team of the Centre has been expanded to include researchers from the University of Gdańsk and the Gdańsk University of Technology.

The Centre’s development directions include, among others, the application of molecular biology research methods combined with in vitro and in vivo experimental modeling in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, as well as mathematical modeling and the use of deep learning techniques and artificial intelligence to enhance the processes of diagnosis and therapy personalization in brain disorders. The core concept is to carry out translational projects — from bench to bedside — which require the collaboration of experts from theoretically distant disciplines, including those that are usually represented only marginally or selectively at medical universities.

The centre is a place for research that requires perpendicular and/or horizontal interdisciplinarity and is open to any researcher in the field of basic sciences who wishes to design a new translational or clinical study, or to translate the results of their previous work into a clinical context. It is also open to any clinician who identifies a significant practical problem that could be addressed at the level of a biology, chemistry, physics, math or computer science lab. Naturally, this pertains to brain diseases, with all their specificity and complexity — an area where clinical decision-making requires careful consideration of numerous factors, each weighted appropriately.

We invite all those interested in the field of neuroscience to contact us and collaborate.