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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

  • Tackling Alzheimer’s
    1st February 2012
    Family genes ruled out web Specific genes known to be one of the causes of a rare type of Alzheimer’s, which runs in families, are unlikely to contribute to the more common form of the disease, University scientists have uncovered.
  • Defeating dementia
    24th January 2012
    One of the University’s leading scientists is backing an Alzheimer’s charity’s call for an increase in the number of scientists working on understanding the causes of dementia.

Events

  • CNGG Summer School 4
    2nd to 5th July
    The Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics hosts the Fourth Summer School in Brain Disorder Research

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.