CUBIC is home to Africa's only research-dedicated full-body Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner and prides itself in providing a superior quality imaging service that facilitates research excellence and innovation and contributes to student development, knowledge production and knowledge sharing through publication in peer-reviewed journals. Being the only research MRI facility in Africa, many of the studies conducted at CUBIC focus on locally relevant problems, including investigations into the consequences of prenatal alcohol and drug exposure, long-term sequelae of living with HIV, cardiac diseases prevalent in Africa, neurodevelopment and trauma, as well as technology development to improve image quality when scanning infants, neonates, children and restless patients.