About The Brain Research Trust

The Brain Research Trust was set up in 1971 to fund research into neurological diseases. 

The founding Trustees chose to support the Institute of Neurology, the UK’s premiere research institute for neurological diseases, in order to assure it of funds for research by its staff members or as part of a PhD studentship. 

The recipients of the charity’s grant money are chosen annually after peer review of their applications by its Scientific Advisory Panel, a group of eminent scientists independent of the Institute. 

TheTrust believes that in this way, it is assuring that the best and most innovative research will be funded with the hope that the many questions about brain disorders will be answered. The Trust also provides the funds for several endowed departments as well as some technical staff. 

More than two hundred neurological conditions exist that could be studied by Institute members.  These comprise, for example, dementia including Alzheimer’s, meningitis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, migraine, multiple sclerosis, stroke and brain tumours. 

The areas to be researched are generally selected by the heads of departments although occasionally a donor will specify that they would like to fund a particular condition. 

All the research done at the Institute has one aim: to find the missing piece of the “jigsaw puzzle” that will enable a better understanding of a particular condition leading to better treatment and/or to a cure.