Edinburgh Neuroscience

Edinburgh Neuroscience Community of researchers in neuroscience, psychology & clinical psychology at University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Neuroscience is an umbrella organisation that serves the interests of all members of the neuroscience community at The University of Edinburgh.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from Edinburgh!

This is us! The report was also broadcast on the TODAY programme on BBC radio 4 on Boxing Day, featuring Paul Brennan, ...
27/12/2025

This is us! The report was also broadcast on the TODAY programme on BBC radio 4 on Boxing Day, featuring Paul Brennan, Claire Durrant and Tara Spires-Jones. Listen in from 00:32:48 on BBC sounds: https://edin.ac/45k92zl

The Edinburgh Neuroscience public Christmas lecture took place on 4 December 2025. Paul and Claire (and Sam Booker) explored not only how living human brain tissue is making an impact in research but also and disorders such as .
Watch/listen: https://edin.ac/4q9njHa

17/12/2025

🏃 A heads-up for the community!

will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟

🗓️ The run will take place on 31 May 2026

This initiative will also help raise funds for travel grants for the FENS Forum 2026 and other FENS programmes. 🧠

👉 Whether you are a runner or simply interested in supporting FENS you can find more information here: https://buff.ly/49gkN7D
👉 or express your interest in participating via our online form: https://buff.ly/dGwCs6K

Stay tuned for more updates!

15/12/2025

Brain Awareness Week is celebrating 30 years! We are grateful to all the organizers over three decades for engaging communities of all ages around the world ...

15/12/2025

We had a fantastic night at our Christmas public lecture recently. Paul Brennan (consultant neurosurgeon), Claire Durrant (UK Dementia Research Institute) and Sam Booker (Simon’s Initiative for the Developing Brain) discussed their unique collaboration using living human brain tissue. We are grateful to our packed audience for their incisive and considered questions which covered data sharing, rigour, ethics, AI and funding. It was an exceptional evening and you can listen to playback via this link: https://edin.ac/4q9njHa

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04/12/2025

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04/12/2025

Our translational neuroscience PhD students are fresh from our final training session of the year. This tied in with some festive frolics and a bit of ceilidh dancing to get in gear for the rest of the season. Thanks to for hosting 👌

28/11/2025

⭐ Funded PhD studentships in motor neuron disease research ⭐

Applications for our PhD studentship 2026 are now open!
We have a fantastic range of seven projects on offer this year, fully funded and based at the University of Edinburgh, St Andrews or Dundee.
Applications are open from candidates worldwide.

Come and join our network of 250 MND researchers and healthcare professionals across Scotland! You will have a chance to interact with and present your work to researchers from different disciplines, meet people living with MND, and take part in public engagement activities.

The Euan MacDonald Centre has brought together Scotland's MND research community since 2007, and is going from strength to strength. Read our latest impact report here: http://www.euanmacdonaldcentre.org/about/impact-overview-2025

➡️ Find out more and apply: http://www.euanmacdonaldcentre.org/phd-scheme

25/11/2025

This week, we’ve been on a tour of the University’s labs and facilities for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research. It lasted 4 hours and yet flashed by in the blink of an eye! It was rammed full of facts, figures, approaches and methods. We covered the whole campus -BioQuarter- and met 5 teams including 3 imaging facilities. There was lots of discussion of neuropathology, medical physics, oligodendrocytes and myelin. It felt both comprehensive and a drop in the ocean. We have so many dedicated researchers and support staff working on so many different aspects of this disease, every day advancing therapies and striving to reverse symptoms of MS. It really was fantastic to have this first hand insight and opportunity.

20/11/2025

A new clinical trial is set to test whether vaccination against a common virus found in almost all people with multiple sclerosis (MS) could help treat the condition.

Professor Richard Chin is the Clinical Lead of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at t...
17/11/2025

Professor Richard Chin is the Clinical Lead of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh.

He was born in Jamaica and grew up in Jamaica and is a fine example of Jamaica's motto, "Out of Many, One People".

Many people have been asking him how they can help Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Melissa (maximum category 5). The area that was worst affected is the main food producing area of Jamaica so food security will be a problem for some while. Some people have lost everything.

If you are able to donate, please give what you can via this link:
edin.ac/4r1xejq
Richard thanks you for your kind consideration.

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