The Neuroscience Research Institute was established in 1993 by the University of Ottawa as the University's major centre for neuroscience research.
In 1996, an Affiliation Agreement was entered into by the University and the Ottawa Hospital to jointly promote the research activities of the NRI, which was officially renamed the University of Ottawa-Ottawa Hospital Neuroscience Research Institute.
The central theme of the NRI is molecular neuroscience, and particularly the study of the molecular and physiological determinants of normal cellular activity in the brain and alterations in these which may be detrimental to the function of the central nervous system.
