Some of the more significant neuroscience research centers include: the Center of Cognitive & Social Neuroscience; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Brain Research Imaging Center; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Center for Peripheral Neuropathy; and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior.
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The Program in Neuroscience draws together neuroscientists from across Harvard. The physical home base of the program is located at the Longwood Campus of Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Neurobiology.
Research sites include the Longwood Medical Area, Cambridge Campus, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the McLean Hospital. The Center for Brain Science unites many neuroscience labs and houses in the newly established Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience.
Website: dms.hms.harvard.edu/neuroscience/prospective/AboutPIN Research Sites: dms.hms.harvard.edu/neuroscience/prospective/ResearchSites Brain Initiative Grant – “Comprehensive Classification Of Neuronal Subtypes By Single Cell Transcriptomics” BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) for Functional Brain Imaging in Humans” BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Mapping neuronal chloride microdomains” Brain Initiative Grant– “Neural circuits in zebrafish: form, function and plasticity”
Email: karen_harmin@hms.harvard.edu Phone: (617) 432-0912 Address: Program in Neuroscience Harvard Medical School 220 Longwood Avenue Goldenson 129 Boston, MA 02115
Mission Statement: We are an inter-departmental Ph.D. program for training in neuroscience. Our mission is to provide students with the instruction, research experience, and mentoring they need to become leaders in research and education.
Who we are: The Program in Neuroscience draws together neuroscientists from across Harvard. The physical home base of the program is located at the Longwood Campus of Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Neurobiology. Most coursework occurs at this campus, ...
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MIT has numerous academic and research programs related to neuroscience. Key institutions include the Department of Brain, and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Biological Engineering, and the MIT Media Lab.
Important neuroscience related centers include: Center for Neurobiological Engineering (CNBE); McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program; Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB); Synthetic Biology Center;Picower Center for Learning and Memory; and the Martinos Imaging Center at MIT.
Brain Initiative Grant – “Advancing MRI & MRS Technologies for Studying Human Brain Function and Energetics” Brain Initiative Grant – “Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing”“Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing” Brain Initiative Grant – “Ultra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types” Brain Initiative Grant – “Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI” Brain Initiative Grant – “Next generation high-throughput random access imaging, in vivo” Brain Initiative Grant – “Cortical circuits and information flow during memory-guided perceptual decisions”
48 faculty members,over 200 graduate & undergraduate students, 180 researchers and post-docs and 36 staff
Department Head: James Dicarlo, PhD
The Institute places particular emphasis on the close connection between theory, modeling and experimentation using the most advanced technologies.
Jon Cohen and David Tank serve as co-directors of the Institute. They view the Institute as a stimulus for teaching and research in neuroscience and related fields, as well as an impetus for collaboration and education in disciplines as wide ranging as economics and philosophy. Princeton collaborators come from an array of disciplines including mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry, computer science, ecology and evolutionary biology, and economics.
Website: pni.princeton.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Mechanisms of neural circuit dynamics in working memory” BRAIN Grant – “Vertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior”
E-mail: ttayler@princeton.edu Phone: (609)258-0826 Address: Washington Road | Princeton, NJ 08544
Co-Directors: Jon Cohen and David Tank
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The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) leads the nation as the top neurosciences department in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
With about 120 faculty members, UC San Diego’s Neuroscience department is among the nation’s largest. The program’s labs, medical centers and clinics are located in the heart of the San Diego life sciences district. There are many research centers at UCSD including Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind; Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience; and Research in Neuroscience at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Website: ucsd.edu/ Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind: kavlifoundation.org/university-california-san-diego Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/index.html Research in Neuroscience at UC San Diego School of Medicine: neurosciences.ucsd.edu/research/Pages/default.aspx Wikipedia Entry: wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Revealing the connectivity and functionality of brain stem circuits” Brain Initiative Grant– “Classifying Cortical Neurons by Correlating Transcriptome with Function” BRAIN Initiative Grant– Optogenetic mapping of synaptic activity and control of intracellular signaling”
With about 120 faculty members, UC San Diego’s Neuroscience department is among the nation’s largest. The program’s labs, medical centers and clinics are located in the heart of the ...
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Several Caltech laboratories are applying basic science findings to animal models of brain disorders, and these translational approaches are opening up novel therapeutic avenues.
Caltech Neuroscience research spans a wide range: from the molecular function of receptors; through signaling organelles like the synapse; the structure and function of single neurons; the assembly and function of circuits of nerve cells; and the collective function of brain systems in controlling behavior, perception, memory, cognition, and emotion.
Neurobiology website: http://neurobiology.caltech.edu/ Computaton & Neural Systems website: http://www.cns.caltech.edu/ Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology BRAIN Initiative Grant – Time-Reversal Optical Focusing for Noninvasive Optogenetics BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Modular nanophotonic probes for dense neural recording at single-cell resolution” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Integrative Functional Mapping of Sensory-Motor Pathways” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Dissecting human brain circuits in vivo using ultrasonic neuromodulation”
Email: meister@caltech.edu Phone: 626) 395-1782 Address: Neurobiology California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd., MC 216-76 Pasadena, CA 91125
Executive Officer for Neurobiology: Marianne Bronner
The CNS faculty maintain strong connections with colleagues throughout the Division, the Institute, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Our faculty collaborate with colleagues from Bioengineering, Biology, Electrical Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, and JPL.
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UC Irvine’s neuroscience efforts are primarily focused on the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the School of Biological Sciences.
Research projects aim to discover treatments and cures for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, learning and memory disorders, drug addiction, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), deafness and other hearing disorders, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, mental retardation and to learn more about systems neuroscience, learning and memory, cell signaling, and hearing research.
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Website: anatomy.uci.edu/ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior website: neurobiology.uci.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Towards a Complete Description of the Circuitry Underlying Memory replay”
Chair Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology: Ivan Soltesz Chair Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Marcelo Wood mwood@uci.edu
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior is made up of a community of faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows and staff who share a common goal: creating an exciting intellectual environment that optimizes our research and teaching missions. Our faculty are highly distinguished both nationally and internationally. Presently two of our faculty are in the National Academy of Science, two in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two in the Royal Society of London, and ...
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The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Graduate Program offer cutting-edge interdisciplinary training in several areas: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Science; Computational Neuroscience; and Systems Neuroscience.
These research activities are carried out in laboratories housed in six colleges and 17 different departments on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Through our official partnership with the National Institutes of Health and active collaboration with Children’s National Medical Center, NACS graduate students may also receive research training.
Website: nacs.umd.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Crowd coding in the brain: 3D imaging and control of collective neuronal dynamics”
Email: NACS@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-8910 Address:2131 Biology-Psychology Bldg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Director: Jens Herberholz
The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program strives to educate exceptional scientists whose integrative training will form the basis for significant scientific contributions. This is a research doctoral program designed on an apprenticeship model: students train to become professional scientists by doing independent research and participating in all aspects of the profession under the guidance of a mentor.
Students receive their doctorates from NACS. Support is available from training grants, research and teaching assistantships, and university fellowships and includes tuition and health benefits. Students have extensive opportunities for interaction through classes, seminars, special programs, and ...
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In 2011, The New York University School of Medicine established a new, state-of-the-art Neuroscience Institute, with special thanks to a $100M founding gift from the Druckenmiller Foundation.
The Institute leverages NYU’s excellence in both basic science and clinical medicine. By developing strategic links and fostering innovative collaborations, we are addressing some of society’s most challenging health care issues, from Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy to multiple sclerosis, psychiatric disorders, and malignant brain tumors.
Website: hmed.nyu.edu/neuroscience/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Behavioral readout of spatiotemporal codes dissected by holographic optogenetics”
Email: cordee01@nyumc.org Phone: 212-263-9119 Address: Alexandria Center for Life Science 450 East 29th St, 9th Floor New York, NY 10016
Administrative Coordinator: Eileen Cordero
In 2011, The New York University School of Medicine established a new, state-of-the-art Neuroscience Institute, with special thanks to a $100M founding gift from the Druckenmiller Foundation.
The NYU Neuroscience Institute leverages NYU’s excellence in both basic science and clinical medicine. By developing strategic links and fostering innovative collaborations, we are addressing some of society’s most challenging health care issues, from Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy to multiple sclerosis, psychiatric disorders, and malignant brain tumors. In the coming years, we will continue to recruit world-class faculty, students, and investigators who will work together with ...
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