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| Center for Neural Science | |
|---|---|
| Name | Center for Neural Science |
| Established | 1989 |
| Type | Research Institute |
| Location | New York City, New York, United States |
| Parent | New York University |
| Director | Mark Konishi |
Center for Neural Science is an interdisciplinary research institute within New York University devoted to the study of nervous system function across levels from molecules to behavior. The center integrates experimental and theoretical approaches drawn from fields associated with Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton University to advance understanding of perception, learning, memory, and decision-making. Faculty and trainees engage with colleagues at institutions such as California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, San Diego, and Johns Hopkins University to pursue collaborative projects spanning systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroengineering.
The center was founded in the late 20th century amid efforts by scholars linked to Rockefeller University, The Rockefeller Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Guggenheim Foundation to formalize interdisciplinary neuroscience at urban research universities. Early development involved faculty with connections to laboratories at Brown University, Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Duke University. Important milestones included recruitment drives involving scientists formerly at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Scribner Library, Max Planck Society, École Normale Supérieure, University College London, and Imperial College London. The center expanded during periods of increased funding from organizations like National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, and National Institute of Mental Health and by forming links with medical centers such as NYU Langone Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Bellevue Hospital, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
The center’s mission aligns with research agendas championed by entities including BROAD Institute, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and Sloan Kettering Institute to understand neural computation, sensory processing, motor control, and neuropathology. Investigations draw on techniques developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Weizmann Institute of Science, Riken, Pasteur Institute, and Max Planck Institute for Brain Research to study synaptic mechanisms, neural circuits, and behavior. The program emphasizes translational links to clinical research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and UCLA Medical Center to address disorders including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and stroke.
Graduate and postdoctoral training follows models from MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of California, San Diego Department of Neurosciences, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Degree programs collaborate with departments such as New York University School of Medicine, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and NYU School of Global Public Health. Training includes coursework and seminars modeled after curricula from University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, McGill University, and University of Toronto and participation in summer schools inspired by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings and Gordon Research Conferences.
Laboratories within the center parallel themes found at Salk Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Allen Institute, Janelia Research Campus, and Max Planck Institutes. Focused groups study visual systems echoing research at Institute of Ophthalmology, auditory processing connecting to work at MIT Media Lab and Bell Labs, motor systems reflecting programs at Friedrich Miescher Institute, and computational modeling comparable to initiatives at DeepMind, Google Brain, OpenAI, and Facebook AI Research. Specialized cores include neuroimaging labs equipped like centers at NIH Clinical Center, electrophysiology suites akin to those at Sloan Kettering Institute, and molecular neurobiology labs inspired by Whitehead Institute.
Faculty and alumni have connections with Nobel laureates and prize committees such as Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, MacArthur Fellows Program, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Royal Society. Past and present scholars have held positions or trained at Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University Medical Center, University College London Institute of Neurology, and University of California, San Francisco. Alumni have gone on to appointments at Princeton University, Yale University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, University of Washington, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Georgetown University, Rutgers University, Penn State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Leiden University, Karolinska Institutet, Kyoto University, Seoul National University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Australian National University.
Equipment and facilities are comparable to those available at NYU Langone Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The center houses high-field MRI scanners like those at Harvard Center for Brain Science, two-photon microscopes akin to setups at Janelia Research Campus, and cleanrooms and fabrication facilities similar to Stanford Nanofabrication Facility and Cornell NanoScale Facility. Computational resources include clusters modeled after those at Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science, and Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Collaborations span partnerships with university and industry groups including Facebook AI Research, Google Research, DeepMind, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Siemens Healthineers, GE Healthcare, Pfizer, Novartis, and Biogen. Academic partnerships include long-term linkages with Columbia University, CUNY Graduate Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and international nodes such as Max Planck Society, EMBL, Riken, CNRS, Karolinska Institutet, University of Tokyo, University of Melbourne, McGill University, University of British Columbia, ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and University of Amsterdam.
Category:Neuroscience research institutes