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Master of Neuroscience Applications now CLOSED for 2025!

We have received applications from students from diverse academic disciplines for this brand 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.

AI and Neuroscience postdoc selected for the 2024 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Award

Irene Nandutu, our postdoctoral researcher with the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit and the Neuroscience Institute (Dept of Paediatrics and Child health) chosen out of 788 applications!

Daily Maverick: Not using seatbelts is killing kids, wrecking families and causing SA’s brain trauma crisis

UCT Neuroscience Institute researchers' work reaching the ears of the public and hopefully the minds of the policy makers! Thanks to Dr Don Pinnock from The Daily Maverick for highlighting this important issue!

A gendered epidemic: addressing the intersection of HIV, women, and child health

Children exposed to HIV in pregnancy show differences in brain structure compared to children not exposed to HIV, according to a study by NI researcher, Dr Catherine Wedderburn, with the Dept of Paediatrics and Child Health

'Factors affecting quality of life in adults with epilepsy: insights from South Africa' with Nwabisa Mlandu

NwabisaMhlandu was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy in the UK for the month of October 2024

Xhosa Classes for all levels

learning to speak Xhosa in community.

12 March 2024 - 11 December 2025 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 - 5 December 2025 Read more

PsychoPy/Unreal Engine workshop

A 1-hour online workshop run every 2nd friday (10-11am) that will be useful for those using PsychoPy and Unreal Engine to create and modify fMRI, EEG, fNIRS, and/or Cognitive or Behavioral tasks.

15 March 2024 - 5 December 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.

5 March 2024 - 2 December 2025 Read more