Our partner organisations
We're delighted to be working in collaboration with the following Partner Organisations to deliver a stimulating and diverse scientific programme for the International BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience.
Festival Friends
The Guarantors of Brain is a charity that aims to promote teaching, education and research in neurology and related clinical-academic disciplines, funded by the publications of the Journal BRAIN and BRAIN Comms. The Charity was founded in 1955 with a body of Guarantors drawn from leading British Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Neurosurgeons, Neurophysiologists and Neuroscientists. They work in partnership with the Association of British Neurologists for the Brain Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme.
Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. Around 145,000 people in the UK have Parkinson’s.
Parkinson's UK invests in groundbreaking projects, such as a 10-year study to reveal the long-term benefits of DBS (deep brain stimulation), and a GDNF (glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor) clinical trial, which developed robot surgery to deliver a potential treatment to brain cells buried deep inside the brain.
Partner Organisations
British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience
A leading focal point for researchers in the field at all stages in their career. Working to promote awareness and discussion of the latest research findings and research methodologies in cognitive neuroscience and reward outstanding talent in the field through Early and Mid-Career Prizes.
British Associa
tion for Psychopharmacology
The BAP is a learned society and registered charity. It promotes research and education in psychopharmacology, neuroscience and related areas, and brings together people in academia, health services, and industry. Formed in 1974, it is the largest such national association in Europe, and the second largest in the world.
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sh Neuropathological Society
The British Neuropathological Society provide a friendly and active forum for both clinical and experimental neuropathology. Through regular meetings, their Journal, and educational activities they are bringing people together to understand diseases of the nervous system.
CURE-NDCURE-ND stands for Catalysing a United Response in Europe to Neurodegenerative Diseases, and is an alliance between the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Mission Lucidity (ML, a partnership between imec, KU Leuven, UZ Leuven and VIB in Belgium) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI). Together, these partners embrace a joint effort to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and nurture breakthroughs in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.
European Brain and Behaviour Society
The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) promotes the interaction and exchange of information between scientists in Europe with a common interest in the brain mechanisms of behaviour.
Established in 1968, EBBS is the oldest society in the world focused on the interrelationship between brain and behaviour and is a founding member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
Epilepsy Research UK is the only charity exclusively dedicated to driving and enabling life changing, life saving research in the UK. They play a key role in bringing the epilepsy research community together, inspiring collaborations and driving further investment for research into epilepsy.
Motor Neurone Disease Scotland is the leading charity in Scotland providing care and support to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND), as well as funding vital research into finding a cure.
The Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) funds research, improves care and provides support for people with MND, their families and carers. They are a membership organisation with over 10,000 members forming a powerful national and local network that provides information and support.
The My Name'5 Doddie Foundation work in partnership with existing frontline care providers to ensure the holistic needs of patients and their families are understood and met.
Neuroscience Ireland (NI) was established in 2005 as Ireland’s National Neuroscience Society, and is a registered charity in the Republic of Ireland. The aim of the Society is to advance research and education in the neurosciences in Ireland, and to represent Irish neuroscience researchers both nationally and internationally.
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ociety for British Neurological Surgeons
The purpose of the Society is the study and advancement of Neurosurgery. This is achieved through the scientific meetings of the Society, through publications arising from deliberations about aspects of Neurosurgical practice and delivery of Neurosurgical services, through fostering professional relationships amongst neurosurgeons and through engagement with the public and bodies involved in the provision of care to patients requiring Neurosurgery. The Society promotes safe and effective Neurosurgical treatment for patients throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
Simons Iniative for the Developing Brain
SIDB is a research centre based at the University of Edinburgh, bringing together around 40 research groups across six research sites. The centre was founded in 2017. SIDB is a sister centre of the Patrick Wild Centre, and together their mission is to understand the neurological basis of and to test new therapies for monogenic forms of autism and intellectual disability.
e Physiological SocietyThe Physiological Society promotes physiology and support those working in the field by organising world-class scientific meetings, offering grants for research, collaboration and international travel, and by publishing the latest developments in their leading scientific journals, The Journal of Physiology, Experimental Physiology and Physiological Reports.
UK Dementia Research Institute
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the UK’s leading national biomedical research institute dedicated to changing the outcomes of people living with or at risk of neurodegenerative diseases. Established in 2017 by its principal funder the Medical Research Council, in partnership with Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK, the multi-million-pound Institute is hosted across six leading UK universities and focused on developing new treatments, technologies and diagnostics for people with all types of dementia and neurodegenerative disease.