National Brain Research Centre

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National Brain Research Centre
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Established: 2003
Type: Government. Autonomous
President: Dr. P.N.Tandon
Director: Dr. Vijayalaxmi Ravindranath
Faculty: 15
Location: Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Campus: Semi-Urban. 38 Acres
Nickname: NBRC
Website: www.nbrc.ac.in


National Brain Research Centre is a neuroscience research institute, situated in Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana-India. It is an autonomous institute and a deemed university, under Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India.[1]

Dr. Vijayalaxmi Ravindranath is the founder director of NBRC and also holds the distinguishing place of being the first women from Ministry of Science and Technology, India to head a national lab.[2]

NBRC was formally inagurated on December 16, 2003 by his excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India.[citation needed].

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience, Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience are some of the sub-fields of neuroscience being researched here.

The institute has collaborations with RIKEN-Japan,IMH-USA, Pavlov Institute-Russia[3], INSERM-France.[4]NBRC-INSERM are jointly setting up an associated laboratory called "PROTECT" which is an acronym for "Promoting Research Oriented Towards Early Central nervous sysTem ".
     

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