According to MIT Technology Review, brain mapping is one of the ten most influential technologies of 2014. The Jülich neuroscientist Prof. Katrin Amunts is one of the most important actors worldwide in this field. This is why in its recently published list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014, the science magazine named the JARA-BRAIN scientist as a key player.
A new 3-tesla MRI scanner is currently being installed at University Hospital Aachen’s Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. The Magnetom Prisma’s gradient field strength and gradient slew rate are unrivalled by any other 3-tesla system currently on the market.
Dr. Nils Kohn’s start-up project has been given the green light: the JARA-BRAIN scientist won a competition for RWTH Aachen University funding. His research project on the role of empathy in economic decisions will be funded with a total of € 18,960 from 1 April 2014.
Prof. Kathrin Reetz, senior physician at the Department of Neurology, was appointed professor (grade W2) of imaging for neurodegenerative diseases at University Hospital Aachen. The neurologist had previously been working as a JARA-BRAIN junior professor at both Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Aachen.
Prof. Hans Herzog was awarded the 2014 Schattauer publishers’ prize for nuclear medicine at the annual meeting of the German Society of Nuclear Medicine (DGN) in Hannover on 28 March 2014.
