Project IoN (Institute of Neurology)

About the event

The facility will be home to the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL Centre and HQ (UK DRI) and an outpatient unit for the UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

It will be the first centre of its kind, translating ground-breaking discovery research into breakthrough treatments. With an on-site outpatient facility, clinicians and researchers will work closer than ever before with people with neurological disorders and their families, their doctors, and their researchers.

The new centre will house up to 1000 scientists, clinicians and patients together, enabling advances to translate from bench to beside and back again.

The building will have seven floors of shared labs, workspaces, consulting rooms and collaboration spaces for scientists and support teams, the building will host a MRI suite with five scanners, a 220-seat lecture theatre and a range of shared core facilities, equipment and core technology platforms including microscopy, transcriptomics and tissue processing to encourage new ways of working, collaboration and knowledge-exchange.

The building is funded by UCL, the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund, the Medical Research Council, the UCL Dementia Research Retail Coalition and generous philanthropic partners, including: Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Mr Martin Lee and Mrs Cathy Lee, the National Brain Appeal, Brain Research UK, and more. The Founding Funders of the UK Dementia Research Institute are the Medical Research Council, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research.