BCI Atlas

The Swiss institute behind e-dura, a soft implant with the shape and elasticity of the dura, reported in 2015 to restore walking after paralysis in animals.

Lab — European

EPFL, soft neural interfaces

Official site → Lausanne, Switzerland

BCI · lab · soft implant · spinal cord · EPFL · Europe · secondary region

Last reviewed against public sources: Oct 6, 2026

EPFL (Lausanne) is the affiliation on the 2015 Science paper “Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces,” whose authors include Ivan R. Minev and Pavel Musienko.

Institute: https://www.epfl.ch/
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1260318

Device entries

E-dura, electronic dura mater: soft implant carrying electrodes and drug channels. Cortical recording in free-moving animals and spinal stimulation that restored walking after paralysis, preclinical.
A separate entry covers a Europe-based human brain-spine interface: Lorach 2023. This brief does not claim EPFL as the home of that study.

Limits

Europe entry, secondary region. Named from the paper’s affiliation, not from a lab page.