The Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Brown University offers advanced study for academic and research careers in the field of neuroscience. The program promotes and encourages interdisciplinary research that crosses traditional discipline and department boundaries, while at the same time providing a strong foundation in core concepts. Research in the program encompasses multiple levels of investigation from genes, molecules, cells, networks, systems, to behaving animals and employs an impressive array of methods. All students receive their Ph.D.s from Brown after satisfying program requirements and completing a significant body of original research. |
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The Brown Neuroscience Graduate Program is supported in part by two prestigious training grants. The Jointly Sponsored Predoctoral Training Grant in the Neurosciences supports students in their first two years of training and promotes cross disciplinary-type research. The NINDS Predoctoral Training Program supports later year students whose research will promote our understanding of neurological diseases and stroke.
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Graduate Program News
Welcome to Dr. Anne Hart
who has come to Brown this fall as an associate professor of Neuroscience after many years as a scientist with the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
She brings with her something new to the Brown community. She will be the first person here with a lab devoted to C. elegans., the scientific name for a specific type of nematode, a tiny worm just one millimeter long. These animals are barely visible to the naked eye, have only 302 neurons and live in soil around the world.
Congratulations to Dr. Gilad Barnea
an assistant professor of Neuroscience, who has been awarded a $1.3-million grant by the National Institutes of Health, given to a select group of researchers who pursue “high-risk, high-reward” research. He will try to develop a method that could help scientists produce more targeted treatments for a number of diseases without side effects.
Upcoming Events
The Bench to Bedside lecture scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 4PM in the Marcuvitz Auditorium in Sidney Frank Hall. Drs. Sheila Blumstein and Stephen Mernoff will address the topic of "Stroke." More information to follow.
In lieu of Bench to Bedside on this date, please consider attending
a lecture by Dr. Jason Moore, Dartmouth Medical School
"Bioinformatics Challenges for Genome-Wide Association Studies"
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
3:00pm
LMM - 70 Ship Street, Room 107
