When the brain changes, we change. When it is struck by a tumour, an injury or a disease, the consequences can be devastating. We fund research to help understand the changes that take place in the brain, and how these can be overcome.
We are currently focusing on three priority research areas: brain tumours, brain and spinal cord injury, and headache and facial pain. These are areas where there is a large unmet patient need that is not reflected in current funding levels. By concentrating our efforts on these three areas, we can have a more significant impact.
Our research grants are awarded through national, openly-advertised funding schemes and follow a rigorous review process, which helps ensure that we are funding the very best research. One of our key aims is to invest in early career researchers and so build research capacity in these under-funded areas.
In addition to our national funding schemes, we make a small number of awards via restricted endowment funds that are ring-fenced for research at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
