In today’s Brain Talk we welcome back another speaker from our latest Brain Innovation Days Digital Session on 27 April, “Fast-Tracking Brain Innovation in Times of COVID-19” -- Dr Tomás Ryan, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence. During the last event, Tomás provided concluding remarks, sharing the perspective of an early to mid-career fundamental neuroscience researcher, touching on how the scientific community is going to respond to the pandemic in terms of European brain health and brain research and the central issue of harmonization and collaboration in research. COVID-19 brought most fundamental research to a halt last year, which had huge impact at all levels, as everything we are able to do within neurology and psychiatry comes from basic research. Today's podcast elaborates further on these topics of discussion.Discover more on braininnovationdays.eu