Catherine Price

Catherine Price is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL), part of the Institute of Neurology. Her research focuses on human neuroimaging, language processing, reading, bilingualism, aphasia, and neuroplasticity. She holds a PhD funded by the Minnie Mitchel Goodall Studentship from London University. Price has led major grants including Wellcome Trust awards and strategic funding for neuroimaging research.

Her awards include the Royal Society Fellowship (2020), the Suffrage Science Award (2018), and the Ipsen Neuropsychology Prize (2012). She has supervised 15 completed PhD students and 4 ongoing, along with 95 MSc research projects. Price chairs committees in neuroimaging and language research, and serves on scientific advisory boards for institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience and clinical neurology, emphasizing stroke recovery and language rehabilitation. Key contributions include developing methods to predict language outcomes post-stroke using neuroimaging and advancing understanding of right hemisphere compensatory mechanisms.