On June 3rd, 2025, the MRI Research Day returned to Campus Biotech Geneva, gathering MRI experts from across the Lemanic region for a day of scientific exchange and collaboration.
This year’s edition was renamed “MRI Research Day “from BBL-CIBM-FCBG Research Day, while maintaining the same organizing partnership between CIBM, BBL – Brain and Behavior Laboratory, and FCBG – Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva.
The event marked a significant expansion, welcoming for the first time members of the preclinical imaging community who participated in the poster session. In addition, we extend our gratitude to Frédéric Grouiller, Head of the CIBM MRI HUG-UNIGE Section, who continues the tradition of his predecessor François Lazeyras in leading the organization of this annual event, which this year saw more than 160 participants.
The one-day event served as a platform for reviewing ongoing MRI projects, sharing experiences and challenges, and facilitating exchanges among physicists, physicians, and neuroscientists from the region’s leading research institutions.
The program featured four thematic sessions covering the breadth of MRI research applications:
- Session 1 explored cognitive neuroscience and visual perception, with presentations on fMRI-based neurofeedback for visual cortex control, Pavlovian learning mechanisms, prosodic speech processing, and object-centered perception in the ventro-temporal cortex.
- Session 2 focused on sensory processing and neurological applications, featuring research on tactile perception coding, real-time fMRI neurofeedback for functional neurological disorders, spatial navigation in virtual reality, and corticospinal excitability enhancement.
- Session 3 showcased advanced imaging techniques and clinical applications, including functional-metabolic connectivity with fMRSI, ultra-high field 7T imaging in cerebral amyloid angiopathy, free-breath cardiac MRI, and 7T quantitative susceptibility mapping for neurosurgery.
- Session 4 concluded with clinical and translational research presentations on dural venous sinus stenosis, brain network resilience after stroke, cerebellar-ventral tegmental area connectivity in schizophrenia, and vascular imaging in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
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About the annual MRI Research Day in Geneva
Prof. Francois Lazeyras previous CIBM MRI HUG UNIGE Section Head who was leading the MRI activity at CIBM in Geneva launched the first annual MRI Research Day in 2008. As the MRI research community grew, in 2010 the event expanded to include researchers using the MRI infrastructure at the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, followed by those at the Human Neuroscience Platform at the Campus Biotech in 2018.
The MRI Research Day in Geneva gathers MRI experts from all around the Lemanic region and serves as a platform for reviewing ongoing MRI projects, sharing experiences as well as challenges, and facilitating exchanges among physicists, physicians, and neuroscientists.
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