Centre for Brain Research at the Indian Institute of Science

The Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research in basic and clinical neuroscience, focusing on brain aging and age-related brain disorders. Principally funded by the Pratiksha Trust, the Centre's goal is to explore ways to preserve cognitive functions throughout aging and minimise the burden of neurodegenerative diseases through early diagnosis, prevention, delay, and innovative interventions. It brings together neuroscientists, neuro-physicians (psychiatrists and neurologists), engineers, and computational scientists to conduct mission-oriented translational research towards this goal.

The UK DRI and the Centre for Brain Research launched a landmark international partnership in 2025, aiming to create a dynamic, interconnected research ecosystem to accelerate scientific understanding and innovation in brain health. Further to this, the institute launched a postdoctoral fellowship initiative in collaboration with the CBR.

The four-year fellowships based at the CBR in Bangalore, India, will focus on developing and scaling minimally invasive digital and blood-based tools and biomarkers that, when applied to India's diverse population cohorts, will accelerate understanding of dementias from identifying people at risk through to monitoring disease progression. Fellows will benefit from spending up to three months per year at a UK DRI Centre, fostering deep collaboration between the two research communities.