Muhammad Kaiser Abdul Karim My research involves oligodendrocytes and its progenitors which I derive from human pluripotent stem cells through forced expression of key transcription factors, a method called forward programming. My goal is to use these cells to study oligoden...
Wafa Abutaleb M M Stroke is associated with unstable carotid plaque. Hence, the importance of characterizing vulnerable plaques. In my study I am using two novel imaging methods: dynamic contrast MRI and microbubble ultrasound perfusion. Images are to be analysed t...
Mr Jascha Achterberg As a part of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit I am studying the neuronal dynamics of complex problem solving and computations underlying general intelligence in brains and machines. I am especially interested in rapid One-Shot learning an...
Debbie Adam Educational and Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr Natalie Adams With a background in electrophysiology and the mechanisms of oscillatory dynamics I am trying to understand the changes in network interactions in behavioural variant FTD and why those changes occur.
Dr Richard Adams My group is interested in the mechanisms of morphogenesis that shape the early central nervous system. Using zebrafish as a developmental model, we image the movements of many hundreds of cells using time-lapse micoscopy. Applying methods of image...
Dr Deep Adhya We have recently shown that the in-vitro neural tube structure, the ‘neural rosette’ is affected in autism induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived neurons. This suggests that an autism diagnosis has genetic and epigenetic influences affecting...
Miss Francess Adlard My current research interests include understanding the pathogenesis of major neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Alice Adriaenssens My work focuses on characterising the central targets of incretin hormones to better understand the gut-brain axis and its role in regulating food intake.
Dr Fardad Afshari I am interested in studying astrocyte biology in the context of gliosis following CNS injury and tumour cell invasion.
Dr Javier Aguilera-Lizarraga My research aims to unravel the molecular characteristics of visceral sensory neurons and identify the mechanisms underlying chronic visceral pain
Dr Yashar Ahmadian Our broad interest is in understanding how large networks of neurons, e.g. those in the cerebral cortex, process sensory inputs and give rise to our perception and cognitive functions through their collective dynamics and learning on multiple tim...
Professor Franklin Aigbirhio Research in the development and application of molecular imaging probes, in particular for the in vivo imaging technique of positron emission tomography. Objectives are to design, develop and apply imaging probes that are specific and selective to...
Dr Mike Aitken My research interests include human associative learning, and the role of this learning in intuitive and reflective decision-making systems, including gambling behaviour. Much of my research has involved causal and categorical judgments, with more...
Professor Ozgur B. Akan Our research interests are Internet of Everything, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Neural Communication, Molecular Communication, Signal Processing and Information Theory. We are particularly interested in developing nanomaterial-based neuro-interfac...
Dr Danyal Akarca I'm a medical doctor and computational neuroscience PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, researching generative models of brain networks.
I'm interested in the essential generative principles driving the development of struct...
Dr Reem (Eema) Al-Jawahiri I am a postdoctoral cognitive neuroscientist (research associate) at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. I work as part of the Genomic Disorders and Cognitive Development lab group (www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/our-researc...
Raghda Al-Najjar My research focus on identifying the possible mechanism behind why some patients with multiple sclerosis have progressive disease. I am currently finemapping the only genetic variant confidently associated with progression in MS.
Maha Alfaidi My research aims to better define the selective vulnerability of neurons toward the pathological protein in Parkinson's disease model. Neurons exposed to misfolded ?-synuclein can develop pathological protein aggregates, it has recently been shown...
Dr Farah Alimagham My research focuses on designing novel analytical techniques based on mid-infrared spectroscopy for industrial, environmental and medical sensing applications. I am currently working on the development of a novel sensor for continuous and near rea...
Dr Máté Aller My research broadly focuses on understanding the neural bases of speech perception. More specifically, I am investigating: (1) how the brain integrates auditory and visual speech signals during speech comprehension, (2) what are the neural mechani...
Dr Xana Almeida During neural development the proper number of each specific cell type must be generated at the correct time and place. Thus, a precise balance between cell division, cell survival, cell cycle exit and differentiation must be achieved. However, th...
Dr Johan Alsiö Cognitive flexibility is required to respond to changes in the environment and behavioural inflexibility can reduce functioning in everyday life. Brain disorders such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease are linked to impaired cognitive flexib...
Joao Nuno Alves Chondroitinase is a promising candidate for the treatment of human spinal cord injury (SCI). It is a bacterial enzyme that cleaves glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains from chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans, which present a major barrier to nerve regen...
Miss Lucie Aman I am working on psychosis in Prader Willi syndrome. PWS is a rare genetic disease characterised by hyperphagia, poor muscle tone, intellectual disability, and mental health problems such as depression anxiety and psychosis.
PWS is caused by the l...
Professor Michael Anderson Dr. Anderson focuses on fundamental mechanisms of memory, attention, and cognitive control, and their interaction. A central observation is that memory, like other aspects of cognition and behaviour, poses problems of control. Dr. Anderson uses ...
Dr Melissa Andrews My research focuses on assessing the localization and transport of ectopically expressed integrins in adult CNS, in order to better target integrins to sites of injury for therapeutic treatment. We have shown that enhancing the regeneration of do...
Dr Richard Ansorge My current interests include hardware and software development for various medical imaging modalities, especially PET and MRI. This work is done in close collaboration with the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. One particular current project is the d...
Dr Dace Apšvalka I work on (f)MRI methods development and support.
Dr Peter Arthur-Farraj I am a neurology registrar with an interest in neuromuscular disorders and nerve repair. I have recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship, to work with Professor Michael Coleman’s group at the John Van Geest Cen...
Miss Athina Aruldass Immunological interplay in pathoetiology of mood disorders is a long-standing concept dating back to the early 20th century. Over the past two decades, irrefutable evidence linking peripheral inflammation i.e. blood inflammatory markers, and depre...
Dr Anat Arzi Consciousness is a central aspect of our experience of the world. The neural fingerprint of this experience, however, remains one of the least understood aspects of the human brain. No agreement has yet emerged on which aspects of brain function u...
Dr Abhishekh Ashok MBBS PhD I am visiting researcher at the Department of Radiology. My research interest include developing novel neuroimaging techniques to understand the molecular process underlying physiological and pathological states of brain. My research uses novel MR...
Dr Jane Aspell What is a Self? How does our brain generate the conscious experiencer of our lives? What is the relation between the physical self - the body - and the mental self? Jane Aspell aims to tackle these thorny questions lying at the intersection of neu...
Moataz Assem I study the precise anatomical and functional organization of domain-general brain regions using mutlimodal MRI techniques of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and invasive electrophysiology data from human patients.
Domain-general or Multiple-...
Dr Duncan Astle Duncan is a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.
He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Robinson College. Within the School of Clinical Medicine he is the Chair of the NIHR BioResource, a...
Dr Adam Attaheri Language is a rhythmic stimulus made up of multiple sound waves occurring at multiple timescales. In a similar fashion, our brains are continually producing multiple waves of electricity at different frequencies and we call these brain waves ‘cort...
Professor Topun Austin I am a Consultant Neonatologist in Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London and have an interest in brain injury and imaging in the newborn.
I lead the Evelyn Perinatal Imaging Centre (EPIC), based at the Ro...
Edward Avezov Through an in-depth investigation of the neuronal cell biophysical properties, our program aims to Identify new targetable pathways, disrupted in dementia. In particular, we seek understanding of the role Endoplasmic Reticulum, and its structure f...
Mr Tiago Azevedo Computer Science methods applied in neuroscientific datasets, with a particular focus on connectomes.
Afnan Azizi Light sheet microscopy of whole zebrafish retina to study differentiation dynamics of retinal progenitor cells. Clonal density culture of retinal progenitor cells to investigate factors contributing to cell-autonomous, stochastic differentiation d...
