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  1. Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience

    Two Neuroscience students among those awarded the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship in Milestone Year. July 10, 2024. Olumide Fagboyegun (G4, PiN) and Ella Perrault (G3, PiN) were among the 50 graduate students in science and their advisers who were named to the 2024 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on July 9.

  2. Apply

    Apply. The Program in Neuroscience (PiN) is a full-time lab-based PhD program comprising a core curriculum that encompasses the interrelated disciplines of neuroscience, elective requirements in computational neuroscience and neuroanatomy, and training across multiple research areas and techniques through first-year lab rotations and ...

  3. About

    The Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN) is centered in the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology, founded in 1966 as the first research department in the world to take an interdisciplinary systemic approach to studying the brain as an organ, and spans the neuroscience community across the University.The program provides mentoring and advising to a close and supportive ...

  4. Faculty

    Institute for Neurodegenerative Dissease. 114 16th Street, No. 2003. Charlestown, MA 02129. [email protected]. p: 617-724-7401. Mark Andermann. Professor in Medicine. The goal of my lab is to understand the role of corticolimbic areas in guiding attention to, and imagery, learning and memory of, motivationally-salient...

  5. Neuroscience

    Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Program in Neuroscience is an inter-departmental Ph.D. program dedicated to training Ph.D.s in neuroscience. The program provides students with the instruction, research experience, and mentoring they need to become leaders in research and education.

  6. Curriculum

    Course Directors: Rick Born, Rachel Wilson. Fall & Spring, Tue & Thu, 9am - 12pm. This course will endow students with the broad conceptual fluency in the discipline of neuroscience required to relate genes to circuit function, metabolism to neurological disease, and cell biology to neural computations. Through a combination of lectures and in ...

  7. Training

    The discipline of neuroscience is defined by the quest to understand the most complex biological system in existence, the nervous system. Neuroscience demands its practitioners be able to draw from, synthesize, and advance the knowledge and experimental approaches born from fields spanning genetics, molecular and cellular biology, and biochemistry; from physics, computer science, and engineering.

  8. Neuroscience

    Neuroscience is one of the programs in the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences that facilitates collaboration and cross-disciplinary research. Neuroscience is an area of study within the Division of Medical Sciences, an administrative unit based at Harvard Medical School that coordinates biomedical PhD activities at the Longwood Medical Area.

  9. Neuroscience Education

    The Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (known as PiN) is an interdepartmental PhD program that offers options for thesis research throughout Harvard, including labs at Harvard Medical School, the Cambridge campus and Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals. Currently there are over 150 affiliated faculty members and over 100 students enrolled in ...

  10. Neurobiology

    We are proud that HMS Neurobiology stands for excellence and inclusion in neuroscience research and training. We welcome you to explore these pages to learn more about our Department's faculty, trainees, staff, events, training programs, and neuroscience across Harvard University.

  11. Students

    Thesis advisor: Christopher Harvey Rotation lab(s): Bernardo Sabatini, Christopher Harvey, Bob Datta For... Read more about Destinee Aponte

  12. Harvard Program in Neuroscience PhD Program

    --Half courses are graduate or undergraduate semester-long courses that are listed as being worth "0.5 credits" or "4 units." A half course = two quarter courses.--Quarter courses are graduate-level courses that run less than a full semester and are listed as being worth "0.25 credits" or "2 units." The course code will end in "qc."

  13. PhD Programs

    The Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience, (known as PiN), spans the neuroscience community throughout Harvard University. The Program provides mentoring and advising to a close and supportive community of students who carry out PhD thesis research in laboratories in the Harvard Medical School Neurobiology department, in Harvard affiliated ...

  14. Neuroscience at Harvard

    The Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN) includes labs across all of the above sites. To learn more, search our laboratory directory by principal investigator name. Also check out our community directory , called the Connectome, to view profiles of neuro community members at all stages—students, fellows, faculty, staff and alumni.

  15. PhD Degree Programs

    Neuroscience. Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology . Systems Biology. Virology. Division of Medical Sciences The Division of Medical Sciences is the administrative centralized home for all Harvard PhD students located at HMS. There are many resources available to these students on the the DMS website.

  16. Harvard Program in Neuroscience PhD Program

    Harvard University | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Harvard Medical School | Division of Medical Sciences. Course ... Systems & Integrative Neuroscience Research Technique. Behavioral Biochemical/Protein Chemistry Computational ... Harvard University: 19. Joslin Diabetes Center: 1.

  17. Hooked on Neuroscience

    Harvard neurobiology professor Sandeep Robert Datta, MD '04 PhD '04, stopped by the lab Gillis was working in one day to talk with the lab about his research exploring animal behavior by breaking it down into discrete modules similar to the "syllables" in a zebra finch's song. Gillis took the opportunity to make a connection, and ...

  18. Graduate Program

    The Department of Psychology offers a PhD program in four areas: Clinical Science, Social, Developmental, and Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (CBB). Admissions information, program requirements, funding and financial aid details, and other resources for the graduate program are detailed on the Psychology Graduate Program website and on the Harvard Griffin GSAS website.

  19. Rosalind Segal

    Rosalind 'Roz' Segal, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, became dean for graduate education in 2019. Dr. Segal is an accomplished scientist whose research spans neuroscience and cancer biology. Her research group at Dana-Farber focuses on growth-factor pathways critical for brain ...

  20. Cognitive Neuroscience

    Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed two decades of rapid growth, thanks in large part to the continued development of fMRI methods. In my talk, I will question what this work has told us about brain function, and will propose that cognitive neuroscience needs to change in at least... Read more about Colloquium - Russell Poldrack, PhD

  21. Women in Neuroscience

    Alex Smolyanskaya received her PhD from Harvard in Neurobiology in Rick Born's lab and is currently Head of Data Science at Abl Schools. Abl is an education tech company that supports school and district leaders in closing the American education opportunity gap. Dr. Smolyanskaya's focus is on democratizing and distilling data to enable school ...

  22. PiNBAC

    The Harvard Program in Neuroscience Post-Baccalaureate (PiNBAC) program is a training program for recent college graduates interested in applying to PhD programs in the neurosciences. Launched in 2020, PiNBAC offers longitudinal science curriculum, individualized professional development, and assistance in graduate applications. The overall ...

  23. Harvard Neuroscience PhD 2024: Program, Acceptance Rate, Requirements

    Harvard Neuroscience PhD: Stipend. The stipend offered by the Harvard Neuroscience PhD Program is $45,696 ($3,808 per month). It covers both tuition and living expenses, and is available for all students, regardless of citizenship, who are enrolled and making satisfactory progress toward the PhD degree.

  24. Psychosis Cognitive Impairment Linked to Brain Network

    Co-senior author Roscoe O. Brady, Jr., MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, notes, "We observed that in individuals with psychotic disorders, cognitive impairment is linked to brain network organization.

  25. Mansfield to Harvard: St. Peter's graduate featured in Netflix

    That search for knowledge and understanding launched her path from local forests and creeks to graduation from Mansfield St. Peter's High School in 2002 to her own neuroscience laboratory at Harvard University — and a prominent role in the new Netflix documentary, "Inside the Mind of a Dog."

  26. PDF Chelsea Boccagno, PhD

    2019 - 2021 Sophomore Tutorial in Psychology & Neuroscience, Harvard University (4 semesters) (Supervisor: Katherine Powers, PhD) Instructor. ... 2019 - 2021 Psychology Departmental Representative, Harvard Graduate Student Council 2019 - 2020 President, Harvard Clinical Student Group 2019 Member, ...

  27. Naoshige Uchida Becomes Director of Undergraduate Studies in

    He also added an oral defense in front of two faculty to the thesis review process. He advocated for hiring another concentration adviser to meet the increasing demand, which eventually led to Kristina Penikis being added to the Neuroscience team. Today, Neuroscience is one of the fastest growing concentrations at Harvard. In the 2013-2014 ...

  28. Welcome new faculty and students

    Eight new graduate students also joined the Department in Fall 2024. Currently, our department has 16 tenured/tenure-track faculty, 9 instructors, 4 part-time instructors, 2 staff members, and 37 graduate students (32 Ph.D. students and 5 M.S. students). ... of Prof. Xing Qiu and subsequently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at ...

  29. Neuroscience Says This Is the Best Way to Start a Persuasive

    An intelligent scientist taught me a fundamental rule of persuasion.I apply the rule to my keynote speeches and teach the concept to CEOs, entrepreneurs, and graduate-level students at Harvard.

  30. Trust, human-centered AI and collaboration the focus of inaugural RAISE

    Speakers on one panel — which included Lehmann, Stanford Medicine bioethicist Mildred Cho, PhD, and Michael Howell, MD, chief clinical officer at Google — pointed to the complex nature of a hospital system, highlighting the need to understand the purpose of any intervention before implementing it and to ensure that all systems developed are inclusive, with input from the populations it's ...