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FutureNeuro SFI Research Centre
Investigate the multiple related aspects of brain disease across the themes of diagnostics, therapeutics, and eHealth.
We are making significant scientific advances that will result in earlier detection, more precise treatment, and patient-centered care pathways.
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Overview
FutureNeuro’s overall vision is to empower people living with neurological conditions to access cutting-edge health diagnostics, effective treatments and digital healthcare. The Centre’s mission is to radically improve neurological healthcare. Through discovery science, novel targeted therapeutics and digital health care solutions through engaged research partnerships with our stakeholders.
Implementation
Hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. With over 80 researchers across seven academic partners, FutureNeuro brings together experts in neuroscience, genetics, cell biology, materials chemistry and digital health. These work closely with clinical neurologists and eHealth experts at Ireland’s top hospitals to address the urgent and unmet need of neurological disease.
Key Objectives
FutureNeuro’s objective is to make scientific advances on epilepsy and Motor Neuron Disease that translate into technologies to meet the significant unmet needs of patients and the health professionals who care for them, and to grow a programme of scale that would have impact for other neurological disorders. These include Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, psychosis and rare disorders such as Dravet Syndrome and CDKL5.
We aim to change the patient journey through our research. This includes:
- Developing rapid and accurate tools for diagnosis,
- The development of therapies to correct damaged brain networks,
- Technologies to enable self-monitoring of health and well-being, and
Linking this to Ireland’s national imaging, diagnostics and eHealth infrastructure based in our specialist care hospitals.
State of the art and limitations
There are an estimated 800,000 people living with a neurological condition in Ireland, one in three people will be affected during their lifetime, and 92% of people living with a neurological disorder report being affected by stigma.
FutureNeuro are multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional and work with industry, patient organizations and the health services to transform the lives of patients in Ireland and worldwide.
