LEARN Lab, MIND Lab and BraiNs Lab are the three new joint laboratories of Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta and Politecnico di Milano: A Joint Research Platform to develop common projects with the aim of speeding up research on neurological diseases. Two of these three laboratories, located at the Milan neurological institute, will be headed by a professor from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano and a researcher from the Besta Institute, with a dual affiliation.

LEARN lab – Laboratory of E-Health Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Research in Neurology, directed by Prof. Simona Ferrante from DEIB and Domenico Aquino from Besta, will create digital solutions for the decentralized assessment and monitoring of patients suffering from neurological diseases. It will use Artificial Intelligence algorithms to identify neurophysiological, neuroradiological and clinical biomarkers contributing to the process of differential diagnosis and individual therapies.

MIND lab – Laboratory of coMputational multI-omics of Neurological Disorders, directed by Prof. Marco Masseroli from DEIB and Erika Salvi from Besta, will apply innovative computational approaches for the integration of data originating from genomic analyses useful for the innovative classification of patients with neurological disorders and the identification of diagnostic and predictive biomarkers of individual biological responses.

The establishment of these laboratories will make it possible to combine the technological and computational skills of Politecnico with the biological skills of our neuroscientists in a structured manner, leading to the creation of entirely new health and engineering profiles straddling frontier disciplines such as nanotechnology, gene therapy, artificial intelligence and digital innovation applied to the fields of health and engineering.