[scholarship] Ph.D. Program In Neuroscience

Ph.D. Program In Neuroscience

Neuroscience Program Open House
Tues., Jan. 25th, 2005 12-4 pm
Tues., Feb. 15th, 2005 9-1 pm
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Overview
Program Objectives
Faculty
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Curriculum
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Overview

Thomas Jefferson University's new interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience, jointly established by Jefferson College of Graduate Studies and the Farber Institute for Neurosciences, provides hands-on neuroscience training with internationally recognized scientists. Students will study and train at state-of-the-art research facilities on the Jefferson campus in central Philadelphia.

The Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience combines classroom, seminar and laboratory study in a wide range of synergistic disciplines (e.g., cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics). Designed to arm graduating students with the skills and experience needed to pursue a career in education and/or research in an academic setting or industry, the program includes:

formal instruction in the classroom;
laboratory experience sufficient to pursue and develop a scholarly scientific research project;
the opportunity to serve as a teacher in order to acquire skills applicable to becoming an effective teacher, and
the opportunity to apply knowledge of basic science to translational research in the clinic.
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Program Objectives
Students in the neuroscience program will become acquainted with a wide variety of research areas in neuroscience. In recognition of the synergy with other disciplines, the core curriculum includes courses in neuroscience, cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The goal is to provide students with a thorough background in the primary issues in these areas as well as the latest experimental methods for investigating them. Students will select a faculty member to serve as their research mentor, and together they will design and conduct a scholarly research project in an area of interest.

Classroom and laboratory training is provided by a multidisciplinary f aculty representing the Farber Institute and a dozen affiliated basic science and clinical departments within Thomas Jefferson University. Participating faculty members are senior scientists in their fields, and have strong records in mentorship. Each has one or more current NIH grants, with funding from NINDS, NIA, NIEHS, NIAAA, NIDA, NEI and NIMH.

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Faculty
Program Director Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele, Ph.D., an associate professor of neurosurgery and pathology, anatomy and cell biology, heads her own laboratory at Farber investigating cellular adaptations of drugs of abuse in noradrenergic circuits. Farber Director Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert in molecular biology and Alzheimer's drug discovery, has made it a top priority to establish the Institute as a leading training center in molecular neuroscience.

Participating faculty members are also senior scientists in their fields, and have strong records in mentorship. Each has one or more current NIH grants, with funding from NINDS, NIA, NIEHS, NIAAA, NIDA, NEI and NIMH. The program faculty's diversity in both funding and expertise is crucial to the program's interdisciplinary strength.

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