It is directed by Luc BUÉE, Research Director at CNRS, and is made up of six teams:
  • TREAT (leaders: Charlotte Cordonnier & David Devos)
  • TREND (leader: David Blum)
  • IT4BD (leader: Patricia Melnyk)
  • Neuroendo (leaders: Paolo Giacobini & Vincent Prévot)
  • BEEP (rleaders: Renaud Jardri & Delphine Pins)
  • INTERACTIONS (leaderss: Maxime Bertoux & Fabien D’Hondt)

It benefits from a centralized administration coordinated by Céline Brand, Secretary General

The Lille Neuroscience & Cognition (LilNCog) research center was created in 2020 on the Lille hospital campus (CHU-Lille). It is the culmination of a long process of structuring neuroscience in the Lille metropolis, which has benefited from several initiatives. At the end of the 1990s, 4 priority areas of research, including neuroscience, were identified.
 
  • In 2007, this neuroscience theme benefited from the award of a CPER (State-Region Project Contract 2007-2014) on the theme “Dementia, neurological and mental illnesses” (DN2M). The DN2M then became a federative research structure (SFR) in 2015. This naturally led to the creation or reorganization of different laboratories over the following five years.
     
  • In 2020, the Inserm “Lille Neuroscience & Cognition” (LilNCog) laboratory was built by bringing together different translational and clinical neuroscience research teams and laboratories from Inserm on the hospital campus. LilNCog has been certified by Inserm with five teams and a general secretariat.

The LilNCog teams built not only the Research Center project but also the ARIANES infrastructure (Alliance for Research in Advanced Imaging in Neurosciences and Mental Health) on brain MRI imaging in conjunction with the CHU-Lille and the Inserm. The ARIANES project was funded as part of the CPER 2021-2027. LilNCog is also one of the laboratories at the base of the Brain, Society & Technologies Institute of the University of Lille.

In 2026, LilNCog will consist of the six teams described above.