Our mission

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

A group of students in the SWC PhD programme perorming an imagin experiment

TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

Four Neuroscientists on Their Biggest Questions About the Brain

The speakers of the SWC's 2019 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series tell us how they got where they are—and where they want to go next.

Klara Olofsdotter Otis Wins Active Student Partnership Award

The SWC's PhD Programme Coordinator was recognised with a Student Choice Award at UCL's 2020 Education Awards.

Will Lockdown Loneliness Make Us Loners?

Researchers at UCL find reduced social preference in isolated zebrafish is caused by stress and anxiety, not observed anti-social patterns.

zebrafish raised in isolation vs those raised normally

The SWC’s Latest Investment Is a Lean, Mean Milling Machine

A new addition to the SWC fabrication laboratories will accelerate innovation

FabLabs engineers Del Halpin and Simon Townsend receive the new milling machine at the SWC

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

When Industry Meets Academia: Sir Mene Pangalos on improving translation in neuroscience

Sir Mene Pangalos

Executive Vice-President, R&D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca