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Nusrat Patel wins award

28 November 2016

Applications for PhD programme open

We are delighted to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 4 year Neuroscience PhD programme for September 2017 intake.

9 November 2016

SWC awarded Major Building Project of the Year

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour has won the award for Major Building Project of the Year (over £50m) at the British Construction Industry Awards.

13 October 2016

New Director appointed

Professor Thomas Mrsic-Flogel has today been announced as the new Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.

10 October 2016

New PhD students

This month we welcome the SWC’s first intake of PhD students who join five Gatsby Unit students to make a cohort of eight. They started their 4-year programme with a ‘bootcamp’ on 12 September with a robot competition where pairs of students had to design and build a robot that simulates a rat doing a behavioural task.

29 September 2016

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour opens