The world’s largest fetal-brain mapping dataset is being built here in India! | Dr Richa Verma

[00:01:40] Brain Mapping: What is it and why do we need it?

[00:06:35] Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre: What do they do?

[00:08:34] Brain Imaging: Why is it an engineering challenge? 

[00:12:40] Dharani Dataset: The steps for imaging the brain

[00:16:15] Mapping and Imaging: The innovation at each step

[00:26:54] The People Behind: The collaborators on this project

[00:30:00] Finances: The cost of the process and who funds it?

[00:32:19] Neuroscience and Brain Studies: A booming field of research

[00:38:50] Dr. Richa’s Journey: Her background and research journey 

[00:41:33] Interdisciplinary Nature: The background of people at the Brain Centre

[00:43:54] Educational Degrees: How to approach it in the interdisciplinary situation today?

[00:51:10] Neuro Voyager: What does it do and the collaboration with Nvidia

[00:01:13] IIT Madras

[00:01:11] The Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre is conducting brain mapping and imaging using innovative processes to get clear and detailed images of the human brain

[00:31:03] The Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India supported the beginning of the brain mapping project

[00:39:06] Dr. Richa completed her graduation from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai

[00:39:16] Dr. Richa completed her doctorate from the University of Melbourne

[00:39:39] Dr. Richa did her Post Doctorate on monkey brains at the University of Monash, Melbourne

[00:40:09] Dr. Richa worked as a faculty at Deakin University, Australia

[00:40:50] Dr. Richa used to work at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad.

[00:41:38] Dr. Mohan also heads the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre at IIT Madras

[00:08:19] Dr. Mohanakumar Sivaprakasam spoke about how mapping the brain is an engineering challenge on the BP2B podcast 

[00:30:58] Kris Gopalakrishnan is one of the first people to fund the Brain Centre

[00:31:22] Prem Watsa, the CEO of FairFax Financial, funded the Ischaemia research at the Brain Centre

[00:54:21] Dr. Jaikishan Jayakumar is Dr. Richa’s collaborator and senior project advisor at the Brain Centre

[00:50:21] One of Perplexity's co-founders is an IIT alumnus.

[00:50:47] The Brain Centre came up in one of the Nvidia announcements 

[00:07:18] DHARINI is a groundbreaking 3D high-resolution digital atlas of the human fetal brain, providing the most detailed visualisation of brain development created and made public by the Brain Centre.

[00:51:05] Neuro Voyager is a publicly available computational tool for management, visualisation and analysis of the 100s of petabytes of data collected by the Brain Centre in collaboration with Nvidia.