Henry John Markram (born 28 March 1962 [1]) is a South African-born Israeli neuroscientist, professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and director of the Blue Brain Project and founder of the Human Brain Project.

The Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry (LNMC), headed by Professor Henry Markram, is dedicated to understanding the structure, function and plasticity of the neural microcircuits, with emphasis on the neocortex.

Henry Markram started a dual scientific and medical career at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. His scientific work in the 80 s revealed the polymodal receptive fields of pontomedullary reticular formation neurons in vivo and how …

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EPFL’s Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research Initiative led by Founder and Director Professor Henry Markram. The aim of Blue Brain is to establish simulation neuroscience as a complementary approach alongside experimental, theoretical and clinical neuroscience to understanding the brain, by building the world’s first biologically ...

He moved to EPFL in 2002 as a full professor and founder/director of the Brain Mind Institute. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked on ion channels, synaptic plasticity and focused on neural microcircuitry, applying a broad range of anatomical, physiological, biophysical and molecular techniques, and pioneering the multi-neuron ...

Henry Markram is a professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL). Co-founder of Frontiers Media, inait SA and the Open Brain Institute. His work began in medicine and continued in neuroscience on the microstructure of the brain, how synapses learn, and how to build the brain digitally.

Henry Markram Astrocytes connect the vasculature to neurons and mediate the supply of nutrients and biochemicals. They also remove metabolites from the neurons and extracellular environment.

Henry Markram is a professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology , director of the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry and the founder and Director of the Blue Brain Project.