National Brain Research Centre
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| Type | Autonomous Government Institute (Deemed University) |
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| Established | 1997 |
| President | P. N. Tandon |
| Location | Manesar, Gurgaon district, Haryana, India |
| Campus | Semi-Urban |
| Website | www.nbrc.ac.in, beta.nbrc.ac.in |
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The National Brain Research Centre is a neuroscience research group, situated in Manesar, Gurgaon district, Haryana, India. It is an Autonomous Government Institute accredited with the deemed university status and is a nodal center under Department of Biotechnology of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
NBRC was dedicated to the country on 14 November 1997 and it was formally inaugurated at its current campus in Manesar in December 2003 by then President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
The center is dedicated to provide infrastructural facilities and a coordinated multidisciplinary team to work at the frontiers of neuroscience research and network the existing groups and whenever required, create satellite units to catalyze the overall growth of this discipline in the country. Founder director Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath has been awarded Padmashri in the year 2010 by government of India.
Research carried out at NBRC encompasses breadth of neuroscience from Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience to Computational Neuroscience and Brain Imaging. List of scientific facilities available at NBRC includes DNA Sequencing, DNA Microarray, Whole-cell Intracellular and Extracellular Physiological Recording, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3T). NBRC ranks first in India in number of publications in Basic Neuroscience during 2006-10.
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