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Master of Neuroscience Applications for 2026 now CLOSED!!

We look forward to welcoming students from diverse academic disciplines for this new Master's course, which prioritizes interdisciplinarity!

Our vision

Our vision is of an Africa where people achieve their full potential through brain health.

By addressing existing knowledge gaps and strengthening African research networks, we seek solutions to African challenges and work to ensure that African priorities are represented in global neuroscience.

Training and capacity development

We strive to build research capacity nationally and internationally, and grow the next generation of neuroscience researchers on both the clinical and basic neuroscience career tracks.

Advocacy and engagement

We follow a socially-responsive approach, using advocacy, engagement and outreach to extend our impact to and beyond the scientific community, to industry, government and society more broadly.

Finding Focus and Community: A look back at the benefits of a writing retreat

The UCT ALMA/DELTAS Mont Fleur Writing Retreat 18- 20th August 2025, an example creating an effective space for research conviviality and writing.

UCT to host first-ever THE World Academic Summit in Africa

The University of Cape Town has been announced as host for the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit 2026 from 29 September to 1 October.

Leading the global conversation on AI safety

NI member, Prof Jonathan Shock, head of UCT's AI Initiative hosts launch of African Hub for AI Safety, Peace and security

NI's chair of the Proton Therapy Initiative, Professor Andy Buffler, inducted into the College of Fellows

Our resident physicist and chair of the Proton Therapy Initiative, Professor Andy Buffler, has been inducted into the College of Fellows - one of the highest accolades bestowed on academics at the University of Cape Town.

Argue Better! Ethical reasoning for healthcare professionals | Online

Healthcare professionals face competing obligations to their patients, employers, and themselves. Resolving these dilemmas optimally requires the skill to understand and critically engage with others' - and our own - positions.

1 September 2025 - 31 October 2025 Read more

Talk: Solving Rare Diseases by Systematic Data Re-Analysis & Application of Long-Read Genome Sequencing

Prof Alex Hoischen, lead of the ‘Genomic Technologies for Immune-Mediated and Infectious Diseases Research Group' at Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands. He specializes in the discovery of rare disease genes.

31 October 2025 Read more

Clinical Ethics Forum

Join us the first Tuesday of every month as we present and discuss complex ethics cases encountered by clinicians around the province.

9 April 2024 - 6 October 2026 Read more

Clinical Ethics Forum

"Balancing Hope and Harm: Ethical Decision-Making in Assisted Reproduction for Women with Renal failure"

4 November 2025 Read more

Master of Neuroscience Applications for 2026 now CLOSED!!

Our vision

Research and innovation

Training and capacity development

Advocacy and engagement

Finding Focus and Community: A look back at the benefits of a writing retreat

UCT to host first-ever THE World Academic Summit in Africa

Leading the global conversation on AI safety

NI's chair of the Proton Therapy Initiative, Professor Andy Buffler, inducted into the College of Fellows

Upcoming Events

Argue Better! Ethical reasoning for healthcare professionals | Online

Talk: Solving Rare Diseases by Systematic Data Re-Analysis & Application of Long-Read Genome Sequencing

Clinical Ethics Forum

Clinical Ethics Forum

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