The work is enabling an integrated tool that combines multiple functions to allow electrical as well as chemical sensing and stimulation of neurons, with precise electrode positioning with respect to cells and aiming towards long term chronic use.

Fourteen partners, from ten European countries and both from academic and industrial worlds, form the NeuroProbes consortium.

The aim of the proposed research is to develop a system platform that will allow an extremely wide series of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic measures for the treatment and for the scientific understanding of cerebral systems and associated diseases. Our work is leading to a new integrated tool that combines multiple functions to allow electrical recording and stimulation as well as chemical sensing and stimulation. The resulting potential is expected to lead to a new era of work in the field of fundamental, scientific, as well as clinical brain research. Furthermore, the medical relevance of this work is also being demonstrated in the course of the project.