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A center to produce and research data about the human brain has been established at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. The center has a large effort to map the human brain at the cellular and connection level and wants to concentrate on high-resolution brain imaging.

The clinical partners for the research are medical groups led by three physicians: J. Kumutha of Saveetha Medical College Hospital, Anita Mahadevan of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience, and George Varghese of CMC Vellore. IIT Madras' Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam will serve as the center's director.

IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti, principal scientific advisor K. VijayRaghavan, and the center's esteemed supporters Kris Gopalakrishnan and Sudha Gopalakrishnan also took part.

Students at the Institute's undergraduate and graduate programs would receive training in cutting-edge machine learning, computing, and neuroscience technologies.

The institute maintains a worldwide network of collaborators working on brain mapping projects in the EU, Japan, and the United States. Six highly esteemed faculty members from throughout the world are visiting professors at the center. According to Mr. VijayRaghavan, the brain center will assist in resolving complex facts that will benefit the entire planet.

The Principal Scientific Advisor's office is supporting the center's ongoing research, "Computational and experimental platform for high-resolution terapixel imaging of ex-vivo human brains," for high-throughput light microscopic imaging of the human brain.

The facility does post-mortem imaging on various types and ages of human brains. Strong medical partnerships and the technology platform created by the institute, according to Mr. Mohanasankar, enabled the center to produce high-resolution and large-format histological sections of human brains.

The Principal Scientific Advisor's office is supporting the center's ongoing research, "Computational and experimental platform for high-resolution terapixel imaging of ex-vivo human brains," for high-throughput light microscopic imaging of the human brain.

The facility does post-mortem imaging on various types and ages of human brains. Strong medical partnerships and the technology platform created by the institute, according to Mr. Mohanasankar, enabled the centre to produce high-resolution and large-format histological sections of human brains.

On that same day, Mr. VijayRaghavan opened the AquaMAP centre for water management and policy.