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SIDB PhD studentship application is OPEN!

The 9th Annual SIDB Retreat 2025

£40 Million Investment Strengthens SIDB Research into Neurodevelopmental Disordersoundation

SYNGAP1 Awareness Day 2025

International CDKL5 Day 2025

Celebrating the 1st CDBS Family & Friends Day - The Patrick Wild Centre

SIDB Researchers at BNA 2025

Pagan Lab PhD studentship | find out more and apply

New publication: Keeping cells in shape

GRI-UK family members visit our SIDB labs

Same choices, different brains (Nature paper)

New paper: Everyday touch reshapes brain connections

Donlin-Asp postdoc opportunity

Registration | The British Neuroscience Association

Lyons Lab job opportunities

SIDB/UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation PhD Projects

Meet the team...Matt Nolan

Nolan lab paper: Reading the map for memory and navigation

Slice of Science for Castlebrae Community High School Students

Dr Ying Sze wins prize at the Scottish Pain and Research Community meeting

We are recruiting for a Research Support Engineer

Dr Martinez-Gonzalez awarded Runner Up for Scottish Microscopist of the Year Award 2024

Meet our team...Tess Atkinson

Dr Paul Donlin-Asp awarded Wellcome Career Development Award

Female brains are more resilient to food restriction than males

Dr Emma Perkins receives CDKL5 Forum 2024 Junior Fellowship Award

SFARI Researchers Gather in Edinburgh for 2024 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting

Dr Jordan's PhD project (FindAPhD.com)

It's International Fragile X Day: Find out more about our research

SIDB 8th Annual Research Retreat

Dr Rebecca Jordan awarded ERC starting grant

Art & Science Exhibition: The Developing Brain

Neurons that model fragile X syndrome develop slower than typical neurons

Syngap Awareness Day

Researcher in Spotlight - Susana Louros

International CDKL5 Day

Soapbox Science Edinburgh 2024

SIDB attends the Gordon Research Conference (Italy)

Abseil for SYNGAP1

SIDB at Pint of Science Festival 2024

Neuroscience Day 2024

EEF1A2 Community Conference

Hiring: Research Assistant/Lab Manager

A system that monitors the brain for failures in prediction

New mouse model for rare, severe neurodevelopmental disorder

Winefride and Booth Smith Memorial Lecture

Dr Sam Booker awarded MRC Grant

FUSION Jar in Action: SustainAbility project

Examining autism and ADHD traits in children with SYNGAP1-related Intellectual Disability

Prof Mike Cousin awarded MRC Grant

Constantinos Eleftheriou wins Alison Douglas prize for best PhD thesis

Fragile X Support Group Visit Our SIDB Labs

SIDB PhD Applications Now Open

Dr Martinez-Gonzalez wins imaging competition for 'Squid'

Women in Neuroscience

Peter Kind awarded a 2023 Principal's Medal

SYNGAP1 Family Day

SIDB 7th Annual Research Retreat

Researcher in Spotlight: Cristina Martinez-Gonzalez

Lighting Up For World Fragile X Day

Prof Ian Duguid awarded Wellcome Discovery Award

Whiskers found that act as wind antennae

Dr Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser awarded grants for epilepsy research

Researcher in Spotlight: Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser

The molecule that acts as a ‘hub’ when it’s time to communicate

New research groups at the SIDB

BNA Festival of Neuroscience 2023

PhD life to building software for visuomotor tasks

SIDB and PWC Group Leaders awarded FRAXA Fellowship grant

Congratulations to SIDB's first PhD Graduate

New research from the Osterweil lab now out in Neuron

Dr Andrew Stanfield nominated for Academic Researcher of the Year

New Study! - Nurses working within an LD in patient setting

Upcoming seminar with Adrian Bird - 21st April

SIDB's 5th year anniversary!

Dr Lida Zoupi awarded the Wellcome-University of Edinburgh ISSF3

Cajal Embroidery Project

How does the mammalian brain adapt to food scarcity?

Applications open for our 2022 PhD programmes

SIDB Annual Research Retreat 2021

Researcher in Spotlight: Leena Williams

Development of a stem cell-derived model of myelination

Autism & Bilingualism: Practitioner Webinar

Dr Leena Williams awarded a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship

Dr Tian Tian to speak at 'Development presents....'

Dr Ann Clemens awarded a Simons ESAT Fellowship

Launch of the Patrick Wild Centre eHub

A Conversation with SFARI Investigators Peter Kind & Loren Frank

Professor Sir Adrian Bird jointly awarded The Brain Prize 2020

Researcher in Spotlight – Chris Sibley

Dr Emily Osterweil awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship

Researcher in Spotlight – Nathalie Rochefort

Nathalie Rochefort has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant!

Researcher in Spotlight – Richard Chin

SIDB Annual Research Retreat 2019

Researcher in Spotlight – Mike Cousin

Cycling for the Patrick Wild Centre

Researcher in Spotlight - Stuart Cobb

Researcher in Spotlight – Adrian Bird

Statin may be used to treat Fragile X Syndrome

First SYNGAP1 UK Family Meet Up

Launch of the Neuro-GD Study

SIDB Annual Research Retreat 2018

Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Public Lecture

SIDB Launch Meeting