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The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is an Australian neuroscience research institute, located in Brisbane at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. It was established in 2003, with the current building commissioned in 2004 and completed in 2007. Under the initiative of founding director Professor Perry Bartlett, QBI was established in 2003 with assistance from The University of Queensland, Queensland State Government, and Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies. On November 19 2007, the current purpose-built facility was opened by former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh. Since 2015, Professor Pankaj Sah has been Institute director.

The Queensland Brain Institute works to understand the development, organisation and function of the brain. It aims to understand the neural circuits in the brain, how their function results in behavioural outcomes, and how dysfunction of these circuits leads to disorders such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.

Research
Research at QBI focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of brain function and its application to brain diseases and disorders. As of 2015, the Institute housed about 500 staff and students. Four research centres currently exist within QBI:
 * The Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC), established in 2010
 * The Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), established in 2013.
 * The Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation (APCN), established in 2012 focusses on using deep brain stimulation to advance diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.


 * Joint Sino-Australian Laboratory of Brainnetome, a joint initiative with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation (CASIA), in Beijing. It uses imaging and computational techniques