The Wellcome Trust has just awarded a major grant to MRC CBU Deputy Director Bob Carlyon, in collaboration with Professors John Middlebrooks and Jan Wouters, colleagues from the Universities of California and Leuven, respectively. The aim is to understand and overcome some of the limitations on hearing by deaf people who have been surgically fitted […]
Archives for February 2018
Kate Baker joins the MRC CBU
We are delighted to announce that Kate Baker has joined the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) as a new Programme Leader Track scientist in February 2018. She will be leading a new programme investigating genomic disorders and cognitive development. Kate joins us from the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of […]
MRC CBU Science Night – 2018 Cambridge Science Festival
Making sense of the mind and brain As part of the 2018 Cambridge Science Festival (12th – 25th March), the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) will be hosting another in-house Science Night, exploring parts of the various research programmes being carried out at the Unit. This will be held on: Wednesday 14th […]
Official Opening of the South Pole
Today we take occupancy of the new extension to the MRC CBU, the South Pole! It has been designed to provide the space to take in even more talented researchers to investigate cognition and the brain, how it changes across the lifespan and how it can sometimes go wrong. The South Pole is a two-storey […]