Waterford researchers developing brain implant to treat epilepsy seizures before they happen

Some €4.4m in EU funding has been awarded to aid the research project, which is designed to prevent and treat impending epilepsy seizures.

The project was awarded funding of €4.4m under the EU’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme, making it the first ever FET programme project awarded to an Irish Institute of Technology.

Waterford-based researchers have been awarded €4.4m in EU funding to develop a ‘living brain implant’ that can sense and treat impending epilepsy seizures.

The PRIME (Personalised Living Cell Synthetic Computing Circuit for Sensing and Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders) project, based at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), are developing technology that could suppress chronic and recurring seizures.