Welcome

Research in the Department is multidisciplinary, ranging from genes and molecules through to systems and epidemiological neuroscience, and is undertaken into many of the major neurological disorders which are significant causes of disability and death.  These include stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and other immune-mediated or degenerative neurological disorders.

The recent move to new high quality research and clinical facilities in the West Wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital, alongside the Department's world-class Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), provides an ideal opportunity to translate our neurological research from bench to bedside.  In keeping with the award of NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre status to a partnership between Oxford University and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, we are developing a highly integrated and interdisciplinary environment in which research, teaching, clinical training and clinical care interact.  This should enable us to establish new approaches to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.  To this end the Department fosters collaborations worldwide and warmly welcomes visiting scientists, clinical fellows and students.