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The people
- CCBS has 47 Principal Investigators (PIs).
- >70% of the PIs are also active NHS clinicians.
- The Director of CCBS is Professor Colin Smith, Chair of Neuropathology
- The PIs supervise approximately 80 clinical or non-clinical PhD students, plus MSc students and those on other postgraduate courses.
The Centre
- CCBS is part of the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
- CCBS is part of Edinburgh Neuroscience: the vibrant, integrated, and interdisciplinary research structure that facilitates interaction between researchers across groups, Centres, Schools and Colleges.
- For administrative purposes, CCBS is divided into: Clinical Neurosciences (Director: Professor Siddharthan Chandran); Neuroimaging Sciences (Director: Professor Joanna Wardlaw); and Psychiatry (Director: Professor Daniel Smith).
Professor Colin Smith's profile
Professor Siddharthan Chandran's profile
Professor Joanna Wardlaw's profile
Philanthropic hubs
CCBS researchers play a leading role in specialist centres of excellence, many of which are funded by philanthropic donations:
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research
Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism; Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities
Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain