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Author: Dr. Damien Fair
Dr. Damien Fair is a Macarthur Fellow and internationally recognized cognitive neuroscientist whose research is transforming our understanding of how the developing brain functions. By revealing the profound variations in brain organization among people who share the same diagnosis, his work is paving the way for highly personalized, targeted treatments in pediatric neurology and cognitive psychology. Fair, currently a professor and the Redleaf Endowed Director of the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota. He is a principal investigator on the ABCD and HBCD studies which are the largest longitudinal brain development studies in U.S. history.
The NBDC sandbox: How the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain built a secure cloud environment to accelerate brain development research with AWS
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) and HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) studies, the largest longitudinal brain development studies in U.S. history, are producing transformative insights, but the data driving those discoveries require greater security and have grown so large that many research teams struggle to access and analyze them.