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Innovation

Nurturing translation and tech transfer

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Our mission

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

The neuroscience of learning: 12 tips to optimise your brain

Neuroscientists spend their careers studying how the brain acquires, processes, stores and retrieves information. Do they apply that knowledge in their own lives? We asked leading researchers for their top brain hacks when it comes to learning, and we’ve distilled their answers into 12 key tips.

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Professor Tiago Branco receives Wellcome Discovery Award

Professor Tiago Branco has secured a Wellcome Discovery Award to support a bold and ambitious seven-year research programme at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. With this funding, the Branco Lab will investigate how the brain sets sensitivity to threat, and how both genetics and experience shape this threshold. By uncovering the mechanisms of threat sensitivity in the brain, the research could pave the way for new therapeutic targets for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Teaching, learning and the joy of discovery at BrainCamp Kosovo

Created by Dr Egzona Morina, a former PhD Student at SWC, BrainCamp brings neuroscience education to high school and undergraduate students in Kosovo. We spoke to two of the SWC volunteer teachers about their passion for neuroscience and what the experience taught them.

SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2025/26 winners announced

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is delighted to announce the winners of our 2025/26 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS). Now in its eighth year, the ENSS continues to spotlight early-career researchers who are advancing the field of systems neuroscience.

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Why join SWC?

Career development is personal, and it can look different for different people. As SWC expands there are lots of opportunities to become involved and carve out a meaningful career path with us. We’re proud to be a place where talent is recognised and developed.

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SWC Seminar: Volatile working memory representations crystalize with practice

Professor Peyman Golshani

Livestreamed via Zoom

SWC Online Seminar: Tracking the formation of long-term motor memory

Duke University

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

SWC Seminar: Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding

Dr Michael Stryker