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About Us

The Centre brings together world-leading researchers from within the School of Medicine and from across the University to undertake discovery and translational research – based on genetics and genomics, but increasingly moving into clinical and basic neurosciences – to understand the major causes of mental illness.

News

  • Uniting to solve the mystery of mental illness - Cardiff University
    17th May 2013
    University neuroscientists, stem cell biologists, psychologists and psychiatrists are set to break down scientific barriers in a bid to solve the mystery of mental illness and help develop new treatments.
  • Scientists win international prize for schizophrenia research - Cardiff University
    2nd May 2013
    Following their success in having been awarded the Lieber Prize last year, two Cardiff University scientists recently headed to the US to collect a major international prize for Schizophrenia research.

Events

  • C21 4th Annual Curriculum Conference
    7th March 2014
    Date for your Diary - Friday 7 March 2014. The Institute of Medical Education's 4th Annual Curriculum Conference: C21 Curriculum showcase will be held in Cardiff. More details will be available closer to the time.

Contact the Centre

The Centre is based at the Henry Wellcome Building as part of Cardiff University School Of Medicine at University Hospital, Wales.

Contacts & people

Focus on… Genomic Minds

The MRC centre has a vibrant public engagement and communications programme. You can find out more about the programme on the Genomic Minds website. Genomic Minds is a web-portal containing some of the public engagement work that is being conducted by the MRC Centre and its collaborators.