Case Study: University College London achieves faster, secure global neuroscience collaboration with Dropbox

London’s leading research university uses Dropbox and Dropbox Paper to speed up global collaboration

UCL’s Sainsbury Wellcome Centre neuroscience team faced a major collaboration bottleneck: experiments produced massive volumes of sensitive data (up to 30,000 data points per second per neuron and projects exceeding 4 TB), while progress was tracked in notebooks and weekly verbal updates, slowing research and making secure global sharing and version control difficult.

By adopting Dropbox and Dropbox Paper as a unified, secure workspace, teams can share large datasets, edit live documents, and give real-time feedback from anywhere. This streamlined collaboration and simple version control have accelerated research timelines, enabled seamless global teamwork and secure data sharing, and helped the group move faster toward discoveries with potential impact on mental health treatments.

University College London

Tiago Branco

Senior Research Fellow