Northwestern University (NU) offers world-class advanced training in neuroscience via its Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) PhD program. Anchored in the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) on NU’s Chicago campus, and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS), the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication on the Evanston campus, NUIN is a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative program with numerous and diverse foci of research excellence. The more than 150 NUIN-associated investigators pursue a broad range of research goals that include: understanding fundamental principles underlying normal nervous system function; understanding processes that lead to abnormal function and disease; and pursuing clinical and translational solutions as the basis for preventing, treating, and managing diseases of the nervous system. Investigators use a wide variety of approaches: from molecular and genetic, to cellular, systems, and behavioral. An important abiding mission of NUIN is to strengthen existing relationships among researchers while identifying and promoting new research collaborations that cut across traditional borders.

State of the art resources, available in individual laboratories as well as via core facilities and cognate research centers, afford NUIN students access to the full range of modern neuroscience techniques. Reflecting a strong continuing institutional commitment to neuroscience, Northwestern recently completed an extensive building and renovation phase that added substantially to neuroscience facilities on both the Chicago and Evanston campuses. Infrastructural investments have been accompanied by significant faculty growth over the past five years.

NUIN is fundamentally a research-oriented PhD program, although students must satisfy a rigorous set of course requirements in addition to completing a thesis. Students also receive training in teaching and other professional skills important for all career paths. NUIN accepts applicants from diverse backgrounds.

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