Fourth Peking University International Brain Research Forum

Date: July 4-6,2025

Location: Beijing

Organizer: Institute of Medical Technology,Peking University

Co-organizer: Professional Committee of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment and Technology

Date Time Topic Speaker Affiliation
7.4 9:00-18:00 Registration


18:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner and Discussion(Dinner at Yue Jin Ting 3rd floor)

7.5 8:50-9:25 NSFC Major Program on brain extracellular space (ECS) Hongbin Han Peking University

9:25-10:00 Mind the gap! Super-resolution shadow imaging of the ECS in vivo Valentin Nägerl University Medical Center Göttingen

10:00-10:35 Soft synchrotron X-ray radiation for brain ECS imaging Tianye Niu University of Science and Technology of China

10:35-10:50 Coffee Break


10:50-11:25 Single-molecule super-resolution imaging of brain Laurent Cognet University of Bordeaux

11:25-12:00 Tissue optical clearing imaging for brain: from in vitro to in vivo Dan Zhu Huazhong University of Science and Technology

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break (Lunch at Yue Jin Ting 3rd floor)


14:00-14:35 Cerebral cortex connectomics (TBD) Moritz Helmstaedter Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

14:35-15:10 Multi-modal imaging techniques for brain ECS Zhaoheng Xie Peking University

15:10-15:45 Molecular probe design for brain ECS functional imaging Jianfei Sun Southeast University

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break


16:00-16:35 Smart (pre)clinical data based development of predictive models of CNS  pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics- and current applications Elizabeth De Lange Leiden University

16:35-17:10 Meningeal lymphatics regulate the blood-brain barrier Steffen Storck Washington University in St. Louis

17:10-17:45 Treatment of Alzheimer's disease through the extracellular space Zhiqian Tong Beijing Geriatric Hospital

18:00-21:00 Dinner and Discussion (at Yue Jin Ting 3rd floor)

7.6 8:50-9:25 Implications for brain protection and cognitive preservation Daqing Ma Imperial College London

9:25-10:00 Translational imaging and neurostimulation in models of
neurodegenerative disease
Ruiqing Ni ETH Zurich & University of Zurich

10:00-10:35 Mechanistic and therapeutic approaches to brain aging diseases Kunlin Jin University of North Texas Health Science Center

10:35-11:10 Brain-Eye Crosstalk: Uncovering the Glymphatic Transport Pathway Between Brain and Eye Qiuchen  Cao Jiangsu Province Hospital

11:10-11:25 Coffee Break


11:25-12:00 Novel neuromodulation approaches inspired by brain ECS theories Jicong Zhang Beihang University

12:00-12:35 Neural science enabled AI in medical data analysis Yixuan Yuan Chinese University of Hong Kong

12:35-14:00 Lunch Break (Lunch at Yue Jin Ting 3rd floor)