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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.

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.

‘An aura of greatness’: UCT honours the extraordinary life and legacy of Prof Dan Stein

Staff, students, colleagues, family and friends gathered to celebrate the life and remarkable legacy of Professor Dan Stein, the longest-serving head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health.

UCT's African Brain Child Launches ‘Be Quick to Click’ – confronting South Africa’s silent pandemic of child road injuries

We’re beyond proud of this initiative with African Brain Child and the Cape Town Science Center. The launch of the Seat Belt Convincer sure was convincing and may it reach far and wide!

Our vision

Research and innovation

Training and capacity development

Master of Neuroscience Applications for 2026 now CLOSED!!

Advocacy and engagement

UCT researchers join multi-million-pound fungal fight

‘An aura of greatness’: UCT honours the extraordinary life and legacy of Prof Dan Stein

UCT's African Brain Child Launches ‘Be Quick to Click’ – confronting South Africa’s silent pandemic of child road injuries

Upcoming Events

Clinical Ethics Forum

SIG 22 Lab meeting’ seminar - Neural correlates of mathematics

Clinical Ethics Forum | May 2026

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