Funding
Strategic investments and partnerships (NMHB)
In order to carry out a broad range of activities across the field of neurosciences and mental health, the Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) provides support to strategic Institutes, Units and Centres and works with a number of key external stakeholders to deliver our strategy. These organisations can be other research councils, biomedical research charities, international funders or industrial partners.
Institutes
- Francis Crick Institute, London
- MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham
- UK Dementia Research Institute
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Units
- MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
- MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Oxford
Centres
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh (Life Long Health & Wellbeing centre)
- MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King's College London
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University
- MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases
Resources
Partnerships
- Dementias Platform UK
- Participation in three international, multipartner networks:
- Department of Business, energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to foster and support collaborations with NIH-based researchers in neurodegeneration research
- Medical Research Foundation to fund eating disorders and self-harm research
- Royal Colleges and charities: provide opportunities for a number of clinical research training fellowships
- Funding a number of MRC Industry Collaboration Agreement (MICA) awards to support collaborative research between academia and industry