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

• MRC UK Brain Banks Network
• Medical imaging technology

Partnerships

• Dementias Platform UK 
• Participation in three international, multipartner networks:
  • ERA-NET NEURON
  •  EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND);  
  • Centres of Excellence Network in Neurodegeneration  (CoEN)
• 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