The Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh (CCACE) focuses on the reciprocal influences of cognition and health across the human life course. The Centre is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The Centre's mission is to elucidate the routes to the vulnerable ageing brain, and thus provide information to prevent or ameliorate cognitive disability and its negative consequences for health and wellbeing; to determine the mechanisms by which lower cognitive ability through the lifecourse renders the body vulnerable to ill health and impaired wellbeing; and to provide an outstanding environment for interdisciplinary research training in cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology.