The NHNN is based in buildings around Queen Square. These include the ten storey Queen Square House, five floors of the newly completed Clinical Neuroscience Centre, the Wellcome Trust Centre for NeuroImaging, and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. October 2008 saw the opening of the new £26 million Clinical Neurosciences Centre at 33 Queen Square, with three new MRI scanners and the first interventional operating MRI suite in Europe. This complements exiting MR provision around QS. The Instituation of Neurology also has a high-field 9.4T experimental MRI facility for tissue and small animal imaging. The Queen Square Brain Bank at the Institute of Neurology holds a very large collection of human brains donated specifically for research into human neurodegenerative diseases. The collection is backed up by excellent clinical documentation. Additional facilities include Category 3 laboratories, an electron microscopy unit and a magnetoencephalography suite.
The turnover for NHNN is in excess of £100 million and we have over 1000 staff.
Research students are funded by the Research Councils, Wellcome Trust and other charities, for example the UCL Neuroscience (Wellcome Trust/MRC) 4-year PhD programme. Medical Research Council grant income from neuroscience generates a significant proportion of the £1.5m annual MRC DTG. Clinical students are funded by SIFT. Postgraduate clinical trainees are funded by MPET. Course and tuition fees contribute to the funding of professional training courses, diplomas, BSc, MSc and higher degrees.