
NI Honours student bridging the gap between upper campus and the health sciences
Blessing Gumbu, one of the NI's Honours students this year, wins a Student Leader Award at a recent ceremony celebrating contributions in community, social justice, health and media.
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Meet the neuroscience star who’s using tech to decode the brain
Highlighting the hard-earned accolades of 2024 NI hons student, Simamkele Bongo. Looking forward to the, no doubt, inspired contributions he will make to computational neuroscience in his future MSc in the Raimondo Lab! Well done Simamkele!
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Cultivating the next wave of neuroscientists
The ABC team and other NI members inspired Grade 7 learners from Masiphumelele and Impendulo primary schools as well as grade 10 & 11's from Sinako Highschool in Khayelitsha for their annual Brain Awareness Week public engagement.
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Missed the NI's Hot Topics at UCT's Summer School? Fear not!
Find the recordings of the NI's Summer School lectures, if you missed out, and learn about everything from the 'neuroscience of forgiveness' to 'psilocybin as a therapeutic agent' to an 'overview of dementia'!
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Upcoming Events

Xhosa Classes for all levels
learning to speak Xhosa in community.
12 March 2024 - 16 April 2026
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Bioethics Lecture: How placebos challenge the foundations and ethics of Medicine
How placebos challenge the foundations and ethics of Medicine - Prof Dien Ho (Director of the Center for Health Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Healthcare Ethics Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, USA)
23 April 2025
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Foundational AI Symposium
A multidisciplinary event exploring ideas relating to Foundational AI.
This symposium will feature insightful 15-minute talks spanning a broad range of topics across several UCT Departments.
24 April 2025
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The Basics of the Commandline and High Performance Systems workshop
A 1-hour online workshop run every 2nd friday (9-10am) that will be useful for those using Neuroimaging software such as FreeSurfer and AFNI.
15 March 2024 - 10 April 2026
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Opportunities
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024) African Brain Child: TBM Metabolome
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024) African Brain Child: TBM Immunology
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024) African Brain Child: TBM Neuropharmacology
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Neuromatch Academy Online Courses
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'Inhibition in the Central Nervous System' Gordon Research Seminar 2025
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