Neuroscience

This program awards:

• PhD in Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Graduate Program is a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental program divided into three main areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Development and Regeneration, and Systems Neuroscience.

Program research relates to many human diseases and disorders including fetal alcohol syndrome, spinal cord injury, degenerative retinal disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

The cell and molecular neuroscience group studies the reglation of gene expression in the nervous system, mechanisms of cell signaling and excitability within cells, and the molecular bases of neurological disease and disorders.