The Biomedical Engineering and Innovation in Neurosciences (BEIN) specialty, like the other specialties of the BME-Paris Master program, leaves a wide part to interdisciplinarity and is designed for students from both engineering schools, including agronomic schools, and universities having a robust initial training in basic sciences or medicine.

This speciality is hosted by ESPCI ParisTech and Paris Descartes.

The BEIN specialty introduces the students to many fundamental notions and techniques of biomedical engineering, while using the nervous system as a privileged application domain for several reasons, such as:(i) Aging of the world population, which will considerably increase the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases, and more generally of sensory and motor handicaps; (ii) Needs to develop biomedical devices and molecular tools to better diagnose neurological diseases, and evaluate their progression or treatment; (iii) Needs to to remediate disease- or age-associated handicaps.

These tasks require the collaboration of doctors and engineers, combining skills in optics, electronics, informatics, robotics, physiology, ergonomy, chemistry...

The BEIN specialty has also an industrial orientation, by 1) having many lecturers from research and development (R&D) departments of major companies, as well as start-ups, 2) offering an initiation to innovative entrepreneurship, 3) encouraging students to apply for their 2nd semester internship in an industrial R&D laboratory.

Courses  cover human-machine and brain-computer interfaces (from principles and design to practical implementation and a wide array of "neuroengineering" applications), the imaging and manipulation of neuronal and brain activity, predictive chemistry for neuroscience (from design to clinical testing), microfluidics and other innovative miniaturized biotechnologies for the nervous system, statistics, computer modeling of neuronal networks and their applications...

The interdisciplinary training and experience provided by the BEIN specialty provide employment opportunities in numerous professional fields, such as the medical device industry (for medical bioimaging, or advanced sensory and motor remediation), or the chemical industry (drug design, biosensors): and even robotics, the defense and sports industry and the automobile industry (intelligent cars).