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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.

Harvard Radcliffe fellowship for NI and UCT’s Mubeen Goolam

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Dr Mubeen Goolam has been awarded a 2026–2027 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a highly acclaimed award conferred to esteemed scholars across a multitude of disciplines.

Accelerating African biomedicine: Breaking research silos through translation

By breaking down the walls between research into the brain, the heart, the lungs and infectious disease, the Multi-Institute symposium is fostering a future where scientific excellence directly improves societal health and well-being.

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!

Xhosa Classes for all levels

learning to speak Xhosa in community.

12 March 2024 - 3 June 2027 Read more

ROOTS Webinar 2: Moral Distress Interventions and Support Processes

A webinar exploring how ethics reflection and emotion management training can help minimise and manage moral distress in challenging environments, and will provide practical, actionable insights.

17 June 2026 Read more

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 - 4 June 2027 Read more