The centre is one of only six in England and stores donated brains for use in medical research.
Dr Laura Palmer, who runs the brain bank, said: "One donation, although it has a high cost, could benefit hundreds of different areas of research."
She said it costed about £10,000 to store one brain for around five years, and the centre had more than 1,200 brain donations.Chris Williams, director of BRACE, said there were about one million people currently living with dementia in the UK without a cure."Laura's work at the brain bank is vital to this global mission of finding a cure," he said.
He added that "thousands of research papers" were published using donated tissue from the Bristol brain bank. Dr Palmer said that while there was "always a danger" of the research ending due to a lack of funding, the current cost of living crisis and a drop in donations were putting her job at risk.The fundraiser has raised more than £17,000 so far.
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