BIRN — Participating Institutions

The BIRN is not a closed club. The BIRN owes its high level of functionality to the diligent work and assistance of various related institutions. These institutions contribute funding, facilities, and expert personnel who are dedicated to the success of the BIRN mission.

		Scientific Test Beds
Universities	Research Laboratories	Nodes	Mouse	Morph	Function	Primate (non- human)
Brigham & Women's Hospital	Surgical Planning Laboratory	■		■	■
CA Institute of Technology	Brain Imaging Center	■	■
Drexel University College of Medicine	Laboratory for Bioimaging & Anatomical Informatics		■
Duke Univ.	Center for In Vivo Microscopy	■	■
	Brain Imaging and Analysis Center	■		■	■
	Neuropsychiatric Imaging Research Laboratory			■
Edinburgh University	MRC Human Genetics Unit (MRC-HGU)	■
Edinburgh University	National e-Science Centre (NeSC)
Emory University	Yerkes National Primate Research Center	■				■
Harvard University	Center for Brain Science	■		■
Johns Hopkins Univ.	Center for Imaging Science	■		■
Manchester University	E-Science North West Centre	■
Massachusetts General Hospital	Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging	■		■	■
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)			■
McGill University	McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of the Montreal Neurological Institute	■
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	Center for Information Technology (CIT)	■
Ohio State University	Biomedical Informatics	■
Stanford Univ.	Lucas Center	■			■
Univ. of CA, Irvine	Brain Imaging Center	■		■	■
Univ. of CA, Los Angeles	Laboratory of Neuro Imaging	■	■	■	■
Univ. of CA, San Diego	fMRI Research Center	■		■	■
	National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research	■	■
	BIRN Coordinating Center	■
	BIRN Network Operations Center	■
	BIRN Data Repository	■
Univ. of California, San Francisco	Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease	■			■
Univ. of Iowa	Mental Health Clinical Research Center	■			■
Univ. of Minnesota	Center for Magnetic Resonance Research	■			■
Univ. of North Carolina	Brain Imaging and Analysis Center				■
Univ. of North Carolina	Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center		■
Univ. of New Mexico	MIND Imaging Center	■			■
Univ. of Tennessee, Memphis	Health Sciences Center	■	■
Washington University, St. Louis	Neuroinformatics Research Group	■		■
Yale University	Center for Medical Informatics	■
Yale University	Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory				■

Projects using the BIRN Infrastructure

National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing (NA-MIC)

A multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers, and medical investigators developing computational tools for the analysis and visualization of medical image data.

NA-MIC Sub Projects

Harvard Brockton - Veteran's Administration Hospital Neuroscience Lab
Massachusetts General Hospital - NMR Center
Brigham & Women's Hospital - Surgical Planning Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
University of Utah - Scientific and Computing Imaging Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
General Electric - Global Research
University of California, San Diego - Center for Research in Biological Systems
University of California, Los Angeles - Laboratory of Neuro Imaging Resource
University of California, Irvine - Brain Imaging Center
Kitware, Inc.
Isomics, Inc.
Dartmouth - Brain Imaging Lab
University of Toronto - Center for Addiction and Mental Health

National Database for Autism Research (NDAR)

NDAR, the National Database for Autism Research, is a collaborative biomedical informatics system created by the National Institutes of Health to provide a national resource to support and accelerate research in autism. NDAR is a collection of information systems supporting the full range of autism research activities, including genomic, imaging, laboratory, clinical, and behavioral data sources. It will provide the core technology for a data warehouse, a data-entry system, and a centralized source for common measures and their documentation. It will support large-scale, multi-site projects as well as pilot studies and basic science investigations.

Autism Centers of Excellent (ACE)

University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington

National e-Science Centre (NeSC)

E-Science refers to the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations. A feature of such collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will typically require access to very large data collections, very large scale computing resources and high performance visualisation back to the individual user scientists. The Grid is an architecture proposed to provide an infrastructure that will make a reality of such a vision for e-Science.

National e-Science Centre Sub Projects

E-Science North West Centre - University of Manchester
MRC Human Genetics Unit (MRC-HGU) - University of Edinburgh