The CNCR functions as the ‘department of Neurosciences’ in the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences as well as an ‘expertise center’ within the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam).

It is also the coordinating office of several FP7 consortia:
Neurocypres
Synsys
Neurobasic (a new FES consortium)
Brain-Train (Marie Curie ITN).

The CNCR is also the home office of the managementteam of the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, as such hosting a number of NCA groups including
- the Department of Medical Genomics (Prof. Peter Heutink, see interview here)
- the Department of Child Neurology (Prof. Marjo van der Knaap, see interview here).

The CNCR currently acts as the coordinating office of the European Neuroscience Campus Network).

Our center is very keen on valorization-initiatives and strong on knowledge innovation. We apply strongly innovative, as well as high throughput screenings.

We supply a number of services including:
- genotyping and sequencing
- cellomics
- proteomics and gene expression.

Some of these activities are brought to the market by Sylics, a spinoff of the CNCR. Sylics partly functions as a CRO and as facility for high throughput screening in the field of Neurosciences and Genetics research.

For further inquieries, please contact our management or directly talk to the director (guus.smit@cncr.vu.nl).