Against the backdrop of rapid advances in global brain science, breakthroughs are emerging across neuromodulation, artificial intelligence, and rehabilitation engineering. Yet for cerebral palsy, especially long-term functional impairment caused by hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a brain injury occuring around birth whereby oxygen or blood flow to the brain is reduced or stopped, more cross-disciplinary dialogue is still needed to connect basic brain science, engineering technology, clinical rehabilitation, and the real needs of families.
BRIGHT Foundation (BRIGHT) is a patient-family-founded support and research organization dedicated to long-term family support for HIE/Cerebral Palsy (CP) scientific research intelligence, and cross-disciplinary exchange. As a patient-family-driven platform, BRIGHT utilized the opportunity of the 2026 Beijing Brain Conference to create a focused, open, and cross-disciplinary setting for dialogue around the complex challenge of HIE/CP.
From August 14 to 16, 2026, the 2026 Beijing Brain Conference, co-hosted by the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR) and Nature Portfolio, was held in Beijing. BRIGHT participated as a peer-reviewed poster presenter, introducing its abstract titled “Beyond Top-Down Control: Operationalizing Connectome Circuits for HIE Restoration via The NeuroLoop Protocol”. The poster introduced BRIGHT’s ongoing thinking around long-term functional recovery in HIE/CP, translational neuroscience, and The NeuroLoop Protocol, a neurorehabilitation framework currently being explored by BRIGHT.
The BRIGHT-organized August 17 working session brought together 10 cross-disciplinary experts from basic research, engineering translation, AI, and clinical practice. On the basic research side, participants included Dr. Yihong Ye, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Investigator at CIBR; Dr. Don Cleveland, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego and 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureate, who was invited to share his extensive experience partnering with patient advocacy organizations to design fast-moving, proactive translational frameworks; Dr. Vincent Cheung, Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr. Alexander Gail, Professor of Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics at the University of Göttingen; and Dr. Kazuhiko Seki of the National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan. Dr. Stephen Scott, Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University, Canada joined the meeting through a pre‑session exchange.
From the engineering and translational technology side, Dr. Yanan Sui, Associate Professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, and Dr. Xingwei An, Associate Professor at Tianjin University with a focus on neural engineering, joined the discussion. From the artificial intelligence side, Dr. Haiguang Liu, Chief Scientist at Beijing Zhongguancun Academy, contributed critical insights on how developments in embodied intelligence can be integrated into neurorehabilitation modeling. Dr. Changyu Lu, Deputy Director of Neurosurgery at Peking University International Hospital, was invited to share frontline clinical perspectives on long-term rehabilitation and family support for patients with brain injury.
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