An overview of our research. Over 1,200 staff and students collaborate across our core research areas, bringing together expertise that spans the body and life course. Together, we work to advance the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of major health conditions - including heart disease, stroke, metabolic dysfunction, mental illness, dementia and neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.Empowered by genetics, advanced imaging, artificial intelligence and clinical trials, our research seamlessly connects discovery science with clinical care.Our community attracts over £50 million in external peer-reviewed funding each year. Within our institute Over 1,200 staff and students collaborate across our core research areas, bringing together expertise that spans the body and life course. As part of driving progress in our core research areas, we host several leading research centres and house state-of-the-art technologies, which you can explore on this page. Our principal investigators A to Z Find out about the Principal Investigators in our institute. We've organised them alphabetically by surname. You can browse through at-a-glance summaries of their research interests here, and easily click through to each person's profile on the Edinburgh Research Explorer website for more details about their work and publications. This article was published on 2025-08-01
