Dr Emma Cahill My immediate objective is to develop my research in neuronal signalling complexes and apply what I find to unanswered fundamental questions related to memory and adaptive behaviour. In my research, I address the signalling requirements of memories...
Olivier Cahn Endogenous GLP-1 plays an important biological role in regulating metabolism and agonists that target the GLP-1 receptor have been recently approved as treatment of obesity.
Studies in mice have shown that activation of hypothalamic pro-opiomelan...
Dr Lupei Cai My main research project is to investigate the relationship between systemic inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease.
Marta Camacho I am involved in cohort studies (PICNICS, ICICLE-PD, Proband) which are observational studies tracking the progression of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) over several years so that we can better understand how the disease behaves over time....
Dr Andres Canales-Johnson I investigate the brain dynamics of several ‘internally generated’ conscious phenomena such as perceptual ambiguity, mental imagery, learning during sleep, hypnotic hallucinations, visceral consciousness, and the brain dynamics of vegetative patie...
Dr Rudolf Cardinal Clinical informatics (including data capture and the proper use and analysis of routinely collected NHS data); computational psychiatry (including computational models of mind and behaviour); behavioural/cognitive neuroscience; liaison psychiatry.
Professor Albert Cardona To study the relationship between circuit structure and function, we must know the synaptic connectivity that defines the circuit structure, observe the activity of the neurons in the circuit over time, study how the pattern of activity can change...
Dr Bob Carlyon My research has spanned a wide range of topics in human hearing, but has most recently focused on the problem of how we can listen to one voice in the presence of interfering sounds, such as other speakers. It incorporates behavioural and electrop...
Dr Alejandro Carnicer-Lombarte Implantable neural interfaces allow for the formation of connections between the nervous system and external devices. Whether by recording the electrical activity of neurons, or influencing it through electrical stimulation, these devices and hold...
Ms Sofia Carozza I am interested in how different forms of early-life adversity affect child neurodevelopment, and potential sources of resilience.
Dr Adrian Carpenter Our group develops new techniques for the acquisition and analysis of PET and MR images to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of disease. We also develop novel instrumentation, for example we are an internationally leading centre d...
Dr Keri Carpenter Research on human brain chemistry, in brain injury and brain tumour patients. Brain injury is a major cause of disability and death. While some brain injury survivors have good outcomes, others experience varying degrees of disability, which are o...
Dr Stephen F. Carter PhD As a cognitive neuroscientist my principal research interest is understanding the pathological cascade of Alzheimer’s disease in humans primarily with PET biomarkers of amyloid and tau. My research uses techniques that include high-resolution neur...
Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti My research group is based at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading. We study emotion perception, empathy, and autism using functional MRI, eye gaze tracking, and psychophysiology. I am happy to co...
Dr Lucy Cheke My research concerns the mechanism by which the brain creates, maintains and manipulates representations of events that are not currently available to perception. These representations can take many forms: they can be memories of veridical past ev...
Dr Benson Chen I work in the intersection between neurology and ophthalmology. My PhD research focuses on inherited/mitochondrial optic neuropathies and the experiences of individuals affected by these rare forms of degenerative blindness. Through the Cambridge ...
Dr Cortina Chen My research has focused on stress as a mechanism for increasing nitric oxide production which has been implicated in the aetiology of stress-related and other neuropathological conditions. I then joined the Neuroinflammation Laboratory at The Univ...
Miss Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura My research interests lie primarily in cognitive neuroscience. I am interested in the underlying mechanisms of mental illness, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, paying particular attention to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. My MPhil proje...
Professor Patrick Chinnery FRCP FMedSci I am interested in the genetic basis of neurological disorders, and particularly mitochondrial diseases.
Mitochondria are the main source of energy within neurons and glia. Mutations in genes responsible for mitochondrial biogenesis are a major c...
Mr Bernard Cho My PhD project focuses on unravelling the genetics of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). Whilst contributing to the 100,000 Genome Project, it aims to integrate genomic analysis and clinical data to assess the downstream implications of genotype...
Dr Leonidas Chouliaras My research interests include the role of epigenetic mechanisms in neurodegeneration, and particularly in Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.
My projects focus on genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation and hydr...
Dr Isabel Clare I work in the Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group in the Dept. of Psychiatry and as a a senior member of the Enduring Disability and/or Disadvantage clinical theme in the NIHR's CLAHRC East of England. My research in...
Dr Alex Clarke How does the brain make sense of the world? We can recognise tens of thousands of objects, but despite this vast number, our recognition is remarkably quick and accurate, completed within a few hundred milliseconds. My research ask what are the ne...
Dr Hannah Clarke Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
Dr Jonathan Clarke Discovery and development of compounds that are beneficial to the treatment of neurodegenerative disease
Professor Nicky Clayton, FRS Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition in members of the crow family (including jackdaws, rooks and jays) and humans. Her work has challenged many of the common-held assumptions that only humans can plan for the future and remini...
Mrs Gemma Cockcroft Research Assistant in a unit that studies various forms of cognitive and behavioural neuroscience
Professor Michael Coleman We study axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease. One focus is proteins regulating the degeneration of injured axons (‘Wallerian degeneration'), which we have linked into a molecular pathway. Disease models involving similar m...
Professor Alasdair Coles We study people with immunological illnesses of the brain, especially multiple sclerosis.
Our most important work to date has been on alemtuzumab (Campath-1H), a humanised monoclonal antibody made originally in Cambridge. We started using it to t...
Dr Jonathan Coles As a clinician specialising within Neurointensive care my research interests are focused on describing the pathophysiology of head injury and optimising patient outcome. Using the combined facilities of the Wolfson Brain Imaging and Neurosciences ...
Dr Tony Coll My current research continues to focus upon the roles of the hypothalamus in the control of energy balance. Our current understanding of the central control of appetite has relied heavily upon mouse models and I continue to utilise the power of b...
Professor William Colledge My research group is interested in the neuroendocrine regulation of mammalian fertility using transgenic mice as a model system. Puberty and the regulation of mammalian fertility is controlled by hormonal signalling within the hypothalamus. My re...
Professor Alastair Compston My research interests focus on clinical and experimental demyelinating disease with an emphasis on multiple sclerosis - the commonest potentially disabling disease of young adults. The research group has a broad set of interests: we work on the a...
Dr Geoffrey Cook My research concerns the mechanisms controlling axon growth.
In the laboratory we are investigating two axon-repulsive systems, 1) the characterization of somite glycoproteins that repel axons, creating the segmented pattern of spinal nerves durin...
Dr William Cook MBChB, BMedSc(Hons) Clinical trials in meningioma, inflammatory basis of tumour-related seizures, and quality of life studies.
Dr Thomas Cope MClinRes MRCP(Neurology) PhD I am a consultant neurologist, with clinical interests in cognition and epilepsy.
I am particularly interested how the mind works, how we perceive the world, and how this goes wrong in patients with neurological pathology. My research examines ...
Dr Marta Costa I am the Project Team Leader for the Drosophila Connectomics group, started in October 2016, aims to build the adult olfactory connectome of Drosophila. That is, to describe every neuron that is involved in olfactory behaviour, and its connection...
Dr Amy Courtney My research takes advantage of unique animals and their evolutionary innovations to understand fundamental principles of nervous systems.. During my PhD I worked with the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus and now during my Postdoc I am working with ...
Dr Lesley Cousins MRCP DPhil. I am interested in the effects of antidepressant medication on the teenage brain both in terms of structural and functional development. I am also interested in trying to understand why some depressed teenagers are prescribed antidepressants where...
Professor Andrew Crawford I am interested in biophysics and physiology of the vertebrate inner ear , especially the cochlea. My research has focussed on the electrophysiology of cochlear hair cells with a view to understanding how they manage to respond to nanometre dis...
Dr Sarah Crisp My goal is to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying neurological diseases associated with autoantibodies. These diseases include forms of encephalitis, epilepsy, demyelination, movement disorders and peripheral neuropathies amongs...
Dr Hannah Critchlow Hannah is an internationally-acclaimed neuroscientist with a background in neuropsychiatry. Best known for demystifying the human brain on regular radio, TV and festival platforms.
She regularly appears on the BBC TV and Radio, most recently as ...
Professor Ian Cross I am now Emeritus Profesor of Music & Science. My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms the human capacity for affiliative communicative interaction in music and in speech. This in...
Mr Jan Cross-Zamirski I am interested in applying artificial intelligence to neuroimaging (and other biological) data in a way which uses state of the art machine learning techniques on large, longitudinal data sets while retaining maximum interpretability, predictive...
Dr Nick Cunniffe I am an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Neurology. My research is centred on the different ways of promoting and measuring remyelination in people living with multiple sclerosis; it is anticipated that through enhancing remyelination of damaged nerv...
Annabel Curle Neuroimmunology in Parkinson's disease
Dr Thomas Cushion My research focuses on the tubulinopathies, a spectrum of severe neurological disorders caused by mutations in tubulin genes. To investigate the mechanisms of disease, I am using tubulinopathy patient-derived stem cells to generate 2D neuronal cul...
Professor Marek Czosnyka Brain Physics summarizes physical interactions between volumes, flows and pressures in brain. Measurement, data processing and analysis, forecasting and modeling of various cerebral phenomena as autoregulation of CBF or pressure-volume compensatio...
Dr Zofia Czosnyka Disturbance in cerebrospinal fluid circulation is one, but probably not the only reason for developing hydrocephalus. Physical models of CSF compensation may be identified in clinical practice. I provide a clinical service for the Hydrocephalus Cl...
