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Actors

This index covers entities whose primary activity is conducting or funding research: research institutes, cohort projects, biobanks, funding bodies, and core facilities. Entities whose primary role is governing, standardising, or providing shared infrastructure belong in Governance.

Global and Training Organisations

  • IBRO (International Brain Research Organization) is the global association of neuroscience societies, founded in 1961, supporting research and training worldwide through grants, fellowships, and capacity-building programmes, with an explicit equity and Global South mandate.

Neuroscience Institutes

  • Allen Institute for Brain Science co-founded NWB and produces open-access brain atlases and large-scale electrophysiology datasets archived on DANDI Archive.
  • Donders Institute (Radboud University) is a European open-data pioneer with a mandatory data sharing policy and the home of the FieldTrip MEG/EEG analysis toolbox.
  • DZNE (German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases) is a Helmholtz Association institute, an active contributor to EBRAINS, and a participant in JPND.
  • The Florey (Melbourne) participates in ENIGMA-Epilepsy and operates within the ARDC ecosystem.
  • Mission Lucidity is a Belgian neurotechnology research consortium (imec, KU Leuven, VIB, UZ Leuven) focused on decoding neurodegenerative diseases.
  • MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, The Neuro) is the founding institution of open neuroscience in Canada, home to LORIS, TOSI, C-BIG, and a founding node of CONP.
  • Mount Sinai Neuroscience (Friedman Brain Institute) is the lead site for the CommonMind Consortium and PsychENCODE and a major contributor to Synapse AMP-AD.
  • Ontario Brain Institute operates the FAIR neuroinformatics platform Brain-CODE and is a founding sponsor of CONP.
  • Paris Brain Institute is a French non-profit neuroscience institute at Pitié-Salpêtrière, combining fundamental research, clinical neurology, and translational science across five scientific axes and ten shared core platforms.
  • RIKEN CBS (RIKEN Center for Brain Science) is a dedicated Japanese neuroscience institute, lead institution for Brain-MINDS, and operator of the Brain/MINDS data portal.
  • TOSI (Tanenbaum Open Science Institute) is the open science institute at MNI, the first in the world to adopt open science as a core institutional value, operating C-BIG and coordinating the Canadian Open Science Alliance.
  • UK DRI (UK Dementia Research Institute) is a multi-site UK research institute funded by MRC, Alzheimer’s Society, and Alzheimer’s Research UK, with a formal FAIR-aligned data sharing policy.
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam operates a formal university-wide Open Science Programme since 2022, committing to exclusive open access and FAIR-aligned research data management across all faculties.

Consortia and Cohort Projects

  • ADNI (Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative) is a multisite open clinical neuroimaging cohort covering the full Alzheimer’s disease spectrum, with data accessible via LONI IDA and LORIS.
  • BICAN (BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network) is an NIH-funded programme building a comprehensive multi-resolution mammalian brain cell atlas, with data deposited in NeMO Archive and CELLxGENE.
  • Brain-MINDS is the Japan AMED-funded brain mapping programme producing an open marmoset atlas, with its SRPBS human fMRI dataset available on OpenNeuro.
  • ENIGMA Consortium conducts federated neuroimaging meta-analysis across more than 45 working groups covering neurological and psychiatric diseases.
  • Human Connectome Project produced a landmark open MRI dataset and developed the CIFTI surface-volume format.
  • IBL (International Brain Laboratory) operates a fully open data and code model, with its Brain Wide Map dataset archived on DANDI Archive in NWB format.
  • NIH BRAIN Initiative is the primary US funder of open neuroscience data infrastructure, including DANDI Archive and the NWB data sharing mandate.
  • UK Biobank provides data from 500,000 participants including brain MRI for 50,000+, genomics, and linked NHS records, accessible via the Research Analysis Platform.