The National Brain Research Centre is an autonomous, public research institute located in the town of Manesar, district of Gurgaon, state of Haryana, India. The Institute was established on the 14th of November 1997 but its current campus at Manesar in Haryana was inaugurated by the then President of India APJ Abdul Kalam in the December of 2003. The Institute was deemed as a University recently and is itself only a nodal centre for the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
The goal of the University is to provide multidisciplinary coordinated teams and various infrastructural facilities to enable them to work on cutting neuroscience research and to bring together via networking the various groups working in the field. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, the founding director, was awarded the Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2010. The NBRC campus is dedicated to research and covers various topics such as Developmental Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Imaging and Computational Neuroscience among many others. The facility is also well equipped with various cutting edge implements such as the DNA microarray, DNA sequencer, Whole cell Extracellular and Intracellular PHysiological Recording and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The University currently offers postgraduate courses and degrees in the fields of neuroscience. Currently an integrated five year PhD programme is offered (MSc+PhD) in neuroscience at the University.
The National Brain Research Centre also collaborates on various projects with many international institutions such as the RIKEN Brain Science Institute from Japan, University Utrecht from the Netherlands, National Institute of Mental Health from the USA and the Pavlov Institute from Russia among others.
National Brain Research Centre is a government located at in Gurgaon district of Haryana, India.
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