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Clinical Neurosciences

Welcome to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. 

Our mission is to improve the lives of people with neurological disorders. 

We are embedded within Cambridge University Hospitals, allowing our research questions to stem from problems we have encountered in the clinic, and to directly address the needs of patients and families. We work in partnership with the Departments of Psychiatry, Genetics and Paediatrics, to improve Brain and Mind Health, through life, together.

We investigate the mechanisms of brain disease and injury, to devise new diagnostics and treatments, as well as using large data to improve the way we deliver current treatments. Our work has already led to new treatments in use world-wide.

Professor Alasdair Coles
Head of Department

 


 



Latest news

Innovative FTD gene therapy trial recruiting in Cambridge

18 June 2025

Addenbrooke’s Hospital is one of the sites participating in an innovative, international trial of a novel gene therapy that offers the potential of a cure for patients with a particular inherited form of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD is the leading cause of dementia in those under the age of 65 years. It is a...

Gita Khalili Moghaddam named one of top 13 women changemakers in the UK

17 June 2025

Gita Khalili Moghaddam has been named one of the top 13 women changemakers in the UK by the Royal Society. The award was given for the translational impact of her research and entrepreneurial activities. This work originated during her PhD at Cambridge under the supervision of Prof Chris Lowe and was been supported by...

Brain injury survivors help shape new medical technologies

4 June 2025

Researchers based at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) have developed a programme to ensure that the development of medical technology is in line with the unmet needs of brain injury survivors. The programme was developed by James Piercy, an “expert by experience” of brain injury. James suffered a...