The UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI) celebrates 50 years of advances in brain research at UCLA. Established in 1959, the BRI has drawn together nearly 300 faculty members from 26 different departments throughout the UCLA community to promote collaboration and multidisciplinary research into understanding the brain and brain disorders.

 

Participants at the anniversary event will include:

 

Director of the Brain Research Institute

 

Lincy Foundation Distinguished Service Chair, UCLA vice chancellor for medical sciences, and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

 

Norton Simon Professor, chair of the UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, and director of the UCLA Crump Institute

 

 

Noon–2:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4.

 

Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center at UCLA

First floor conference room

 

The UCLA Brain Research Institute is a catalyst for collaborations among scientists, engineers and clinicians who study brain function and health. Understanding the brain is the greatest frontier in modern life sciences and medicine. UCLA neuroscience research and educational programs are now among the top 10 in the world in terms of breadth and quality. The BRI’s mission is to increase understanding of how the brain works, how it develops and how it responds to experience, injury and disease; to help make UCLA the preeminent center for translating basic knowledge into medical interventions and new technologies; and to promote neuroscience education at all levels.

 

Fernanda Valentino, 310-206-7038; fvalentino@support.ucla.edu

Mark Wheeler, 310-794-2265; mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu