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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.

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!

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.

Launch of genomics podcast - When the Code Speaks

We've been sitting on this exciting announcement for a while, our Clinical Omics and Informatics (COIN) Unit have made a PODCAST! Grab your beverage of choice and go and listen - you won't regret it!

Multi-Institute Symposium 2026 - a call to collaborative action

Last week saw our second annual Multi-Institute Symposium with the IDM, the Cape Heart Institute (this year's phenomenal hosts), and the Lung Institute, on the theme of 'Translation'.

UCT researchers join multi-million-pound fungal fight

UCT researchers, based in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) and the Neuroscience Institute (NI), are playing a leading role in a significant international collaboration to understand fungal diseases.