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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