NMHB scientific contacts at the MRC
General contact
For general pre-award enquiries, please e-mail the MRC pre-awards administration team: grants@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific contacts
Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health
Dr Catherine Elliot
+44 (0)207 395 2224
catherine.elliott@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
If you have a query about scientific aspects of your research proposal, please contact the programme manager shown below against your scientific area:
Miss Ruth Arnell
Board Manager
ruth.arnell@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Please contact for all general peer-review questions and queries regarding the operation of the Board.
Dr Katherine Giles
Cognitive, Sensory & Behavioural Neuroscience
Katherine.Giles@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Subject Areas
Cognitive & behavioural neuroscience *
Cognitive development and systems *
Sensory neuroscience *, vision and hearing and sensory rehabilitation
Epilepsy and spinal repair
Brain injury and repair (non-stroke)
Computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics *
Brain imaging
Units/Centres
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham
MRC/WT Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge
RCUK Ageing Centres at Edinburgh and Newcastle
* with relevance to human health or underlying mechanisms of disease
Dr Joanna Jenkinson
Neurobiology, neurophysiology and neuroinflammation
Joanna.Jenkinson@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Subject Areas
Neurobiology, neurophysiology and neuroinflammation *
Neuroinflammatory conditions (including MS)
Pain, anaesthesia, sleep, fatigue
Developmental neurobiology and neurodevelopmental disorders (eg. Down’s Syndrome, cerebral palsy) *
Brain and tissue banking
PET imaging strategic support
Units/Centres
NIMR / FCI – Neurobiology Division, London
MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford
* with relevance to human health or underlying mechanisms of disease
Dr Gavin Malloch
Mental Health & Addiction
Gavin.Malloch@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Subject Areas
Mental Health (including clinical, developmental, genetic and neuropharmacological aspects)
Clinical psychology
Addictions
Autism and learning disorders
Centres
MRC Centre for Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, KCL
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL
Dr Catherine Moody
Neurodegeneration and Stroke
Catherine.Moody@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Subject Areas
Neurodegeneration – dementias, prion diseases, HD, PD, MND
Stroke
Units/Centres
LMB Neuroscience, Cambridge
MRC Prion Unit, London
MRC Centre for Translational Research in Neuromuscular Disease, UCL and Newcastle