Thanks to advances in neurology and cognitive sciences, it is now possible to understand the normal functioning of the brain. The whys and wherefores of the diseased or damaged brain are also within our reach!
In addition to palliative treatments, a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cell death and the various forms of nerve cell repair should make it possible to develop treatments that prevent, cure or repair the diseased or damaged brain.
This is the ambition of the ICM: to use research to come to a better understanding of brain and spinal cord diseases and to quickly develop the appropriate treatments.
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Too often there is a gap between research and its applications!
The goal of the ICM is to help patients to benefit from the most recent discoveries by providing them with innovative, advanced treatments without delay. This is why treatments will be conceived and developed right where they will be prescribed.
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The ICM will be established in the very heart of the hospital where neurology was born:
The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in 13th arrondissement of Paris, where the first Chair of Neurology chair was established, and where the first operation on the brain was performed.
The Pitié-Salpêtrière university Hospital houses clinical facilities which are recognized the world over for the quality of care and for the potential for very high-level research.
Many clinicians and researchers in the neurosciences already work at the Pitié-Salpêtrière.
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The ICM is a project without borders!
The best research groups from France and abroad, surrounded by numerous medical teams and benefiting from the most up-to-date technologies, will come to the ICM to conceive and develop the most advanced scientific projects.
These scientists will be recruited internationally; in 2006, six young researchers received the first "ICM" fellowships.
The international reputations of the ICM's initiators, like the plurality and expertise of the teams that the institute is bringing together, will guarantee scientific excellence, at the highest level, applied to the major pathologies of the nervous system.
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