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📢 Introduction
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Non-invasive temporal interference electrical brain stimulation
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Location: Alte Kornkammer
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1/16/26, 9:15 AM
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1/16/26, 10:00 AM
(Europe/Berlin)
(45 minutes)
Prof. Nir Grossman
Associate Professor
at Imperial College London, UK Dementia Research Institute
Prof. Nir Grossman
Associate Professor
at Imperial College London, UK Dementia Research Institute
Nir is an Associate Professor at the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London and a founding fellow of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK-DRI).
He received a BSc in Physics from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), an MSc in Electromagnetic Engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and a PhD in Neuroscience from Imperial College London. He then completed a postdoc training as a Wellcome Trust Fellow with Ed Boyden at MIT and Alvaro Pascual Leone at Harvard.
Nir was awarded the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation for developing the Temporal Interference (TI) technology, which enables non-invasive electrical deep brain stimulation. At the UK-DRI, he is translating the TI brain stimulation technology into therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.
Key recent publications: Li et al., Nature Neuroscience 2025, Violante et al., Nature Neuroscience 2023; Rintoul et al., Nature Communications Physics 2023; Schreglmann et al., Nature Communications 2021; Grossman, Science 2018; Grossman et al., Cell 2017.
Electrical brain stimulation is a key technique in research and clinical neuroscience studies and is increasingly used therapeutically. However, methods of electrical stimulation of the brain either require surgery to implant an electrode at a defined site or involve the application of non-focal electric fields to large fractions of the brain. We recently discovered a strategy for sculpting electrical fields to enable focused yet noninvasive neural stimulation at depth using temporal interference (TI) of kHz electric fields with a difference frequency within the range of neural activity. We reported the TI brain stimulation concept and its validation in rodents in 2017 (Grossman et al, Cell 2017) and in humans in 2023 (Violante et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2023). The TI stimulation was awarded the Neuromodulation Prize by Science (Grossman, Science 2018). In this presentation, I will introduce the concept of non-invasive TI brain stimulation, its systematic validation in animal models and humans, insights into the mechanisms of TI neural stimulation, and ongoing translation into a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease.