Congratulations to Unit Group Leader Professor Rafal Bogacz on being granted a prestigious Wellcome Discovery Award to fund groundbreaking new research on the fundamental mechanisms of learning in cortical neurons.

The Wellcome Discovery Award scheme provides funding to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Professor Bogacz will lead an interdisciplinary team that includes Co-Applicants Professor Claudia Clopath from Imperial College London and Professors Andrew King and Colin Akerman from the University of Oxford.

The planned research will combine computational modelling with experiments on real neurons to discover the mechanisms through which learning in large cortical networks emerges from interactions among basic building blocks of neural systems.