CEA — Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

Overview

The CEA is France’s national research organisation for energy, defence, information technologies, and life sciences. Founded in 1945, it is one of the largest public research bodies in France and Europe. CEA coordinates NeurATRIS, the French national translational neuroscience infrastructure and French component of EATRIS-ERIC, and contributes to France Life Imaging through NeuroSpin and SHFJ.

Relevant Divisions

MIRCen — Molecular Imaging Research Centre (Fontenay-aux-Roses)

CEA’s preclinical neuroscience and gene therapy centre, a core NeurATRIS node providing large animal models of neurological disease, AAV gene therapy vector production, and in vivo preclinical PET and MRI.

SHFJ — Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (Orsay)

CEA’s clinical and translational neuroimaging centre, also a NeurATRIS node, providing radiopharmaceuticals, PET tracer development, and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies for CNS drugs.

NeuroSpin (Saclay)

CEA’s ultra-high-field MRI centre providing ultra-high-field human MRI (7T and 11.7T Iseult, with first in vivo human brain images published in Nature Methods in October 2024), methodological development in MRI physics, diffusion, spectroscopy, and functional imaging, and contributions to France Life Imaging infrastructure.

Connections

• Coordinates: NeurATRIS
• Part of: France Life Imaging
• European parent: EATRIS

Resources

• https://www.cea.fr
• https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/research_entities/neurospin.aspx (NeuroSpin)
• https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/research_entities/MIRCen.aspx (MIRCen)
• https://www.neuratris.com (NeurATRIS — coordinated by CEA)