The Brain Challenge

Major fundraising
campaign for
2023-2028

We’ve taken on
the challenge, let’s give
it a future!

We’ve taken on
the challenge,

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For millions of people, every second is a battle.

Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and so many others.

One in three people will face it in their lifetime.

As the leading cause of disability worldwide. Brain diseases spare no generation.

They erase memories, slow the body, shatter entire lives.

But every second can also become a victory.

At Paris  Brain Institute, scientists, clinicians, entrepreneurs, as well as patients and their families are working together.

At the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 900 experts representinf 51 nationalities explore the brain in all its complexity. Turning urgency into breakthroughs, research into solutions, hope into therapies.

Your donations fund cutting-edge equipment, attract the brightest minds, and open the way for new treatments.

In the face of the inevitable, you can change the course of time.

I am Jean Reno.

Just like you, I have seen lives turned upside down by illness.

Together, let’s join The Brain Challenge campaign.

Let’s support Paris Brain Institute.

let’s give
it a future!

Our 5 challenges

to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases

  1. 1

    Ensuring an environment conducive to major scientific advances

    Major discoveries often come from work carried out at the interface between scientific disciplines. To promote the highest level of excellence, Paris Brain Institute must attract the best researchers, develop cross-disciplinary projects, and ensure that its teams have rapid access to the expertise and technology needed to carry them out successfully.

  2. 2

    ACCELERATING KNOWLEDGE OF THE BRAIN IN ALL ITS COMPLEXITY

    Because this is the most effective avenue of research for understanding the diseases that can affect it. A dynamic process driven by numerous cutting-edge research programs that study its development, functioning, and plasticity, using the latest exploration techniques.

  3. 3

    Creating pioneering therapeutic solutions and making them available to patients

    Whether in the form of medical technologies, digital applications, new drugs, or new healthcare practices. By developing cutting-edge clinical research and leveraging our own startup incubator, our goal is to accelerate the development of new treatments for patients.

  4. 4

    Making fully personalized medicine possible in the short term

    To predict the onset and progression of diseases, treat them earlier, and tailor treatments to each individual. This promise can be fulfilled thanks to the immense potential of big data exploited by Paris Brain Institute as part of its computational neuroscience research program, launched in 2021.

  5. 5

    Becoming the benchmark in disseminating knowledge about neuroscience

    Paris Brain Institute has the infrastructure and expertise necessary to share its knowledge in neuroscience beyond the laboratory. Its ambition is to encourage conversation between researchers and doctors, from their studies onwards, in order to train teachers and entrepreneurs and to help disseminate neuroscience to the general public.

68% of a target of €150 million

An ambitious campaign to achieve our goal:
understanding and repairing the brain

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“For 15 years, the Institute has attracted and brought together the best researchers, physicians, and experts whose daily commitment has led to a better understanding of how the brain works, advanced research into brain diseases, and offered new therapeutic and preventive options for patients.”

Prof. Stéphanie Debette
Executive Director of Paris Brain Institute

The Campaign Committee

Gérard Saillant,
Founding Member,
Honorary President of Paris Brain Institute

Serge Weinberg,
Founding Member,
President of Paris Brain Institute

Jean Todt,
Founding Member,
Vice-President of Paris Brain Institute

Maurice Lévy,
Founding Member,
Co-Chair of the Committee

Martine Assouline,
Co-Chair of the Committee

Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones
Founding Member,
Honorary Chair of the Committee

Jean-Luc Allavena, Cédric de Bailliencourt, Frédéric Banzet, François Barrault, Florence Courbit, Stéphane Courbit, Natacha Decaux, Jean-Charles Decaux, François Henrot, Jean-Philippe Hottinguer, Anne Jousse, Véronique De Kepper, Thierry Lepercq, Richard Mille, Eddie Misrahi, Margaux Primat, Arnaud de Puyfontaine and Christian Schmidt de La Brélie.

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