Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley
Research ServicesCalifornia, United States51-200 Employees
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley is a mid-sized research organization based in Berkeley, California. It unites a collaborative community of more than seventy faculty from multiple academic departments to advance neuroscience research. The institute investigates how brain activity drives behavior, memory, and cognition and works to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases. Its work employs a broad array of scientific approaches to study these questions. HWNI operates within the research services sector and serves the wider academic and medical research communities. As part of UC Berkeley's neuroscience ecosystem, it emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration across fields to advance fundamental understanding of the brain and its disorders.