About UCC Futures - Future Ageing & Brain Science

Ageing and brain disorders are among the greatest challenges faced by our society, requiring sustainable solutions to address the health, socioeconomic and cultural challenges and opportunities of a growing and ageing global population.

The mission of UCC Futures – Future Ageing & Brain Science is to enhance healthy ageing, emphasising brain health promotion as a means to combat the leading causes of dependency and institutionalisation within our communities, both in Ireland and globally.

Enhancing knowledge on active and healthy ageing is crucial to optimise quality of life for all individuals and our society. Inadequate prevention and lack of effective treatment and management of many brain disorders and diseases of ageing affects the quality of life, not only of the people living with them, but of their families, carers, and society at large.

UCC Futures – Future Ageing & Brain Science is responding to these urgent societal challenges by empowering collaborative, transformative and inclusive research.

At UCC, we have a strong track record of collaborative and transdisciplinary research on ageing and the neurosciences. We are uniquely positioned to advance research ageing and brain science using a multidisciplinary approach, from molecular and cellular levels, through to lifestyle, environmental and social aspects, will allow enhanced awareness of healthy ageing and brain health, ultimately improving quality of life in our society.

Our members include experts in the sciences, medicine and allied health, humanities, business, law and technology. We are working in partnership with community and industry, as well as national and international collaborators. We are leveraging expertise from this consortium of stakeholder to catalyse innovative and sustainable solutions, in order to maximise healthy ageing and brain health, and to prevent, diagnose and treat brain disorders.