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As neuroscience enters an exciting new phase, the new Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour provides an unparalleled environment for experimental research.
Neuroscience has made great progress in understanding the organisation and function of the brain. The challenge now is to understand how circuits carry out the information processing that directly underlies behaviour.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour © UCL Digital Media
The centre is a partnership between UCL Neuroscience, the Wellcome Trust and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, designed to create the best conditions to meet this challenge.
Under the directorship of Nobel Laureate UCL Professor John O’Keefe, the new, purpose-designed, seven-storey building houses state-of-the-art technology and accommodates 12 highly interdisciplinary experimental research groups.
The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit is also located at the core of the new building, which Nobel Laureate Professor Eric Kandel opened on 23 May 2016.
- Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
- Professor John O'Keefe
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