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| NYU Center for Neural Science | |
|---|---|
| Name | Center for Neural Science |
| Established | 1964 |
| Type | Research center |
| Parent | New York University |
| City | New York City |
| State | New York |
| Country | United States |
NYU Center for Neural Science is a research institute within New York University devoted to the study of nervous system function across multiple levels of analysis. Founded in the 1960s, the center has been associated with foundational advances linking molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, and computational approaches to brain function. Faculty and alumni have participated in major initiatives and have affiliations with leading institutions and prize-awarding bodies worldwide.
The center traces roots to the 1960s neuroscience expansion and the influence of figures associated with New York University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Early development involved collaborations with investigators from Rockefeller University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Weill Cornell Medical College, reflecting a period when leaders from Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Diego reshaped brain science. Over ensuing decades, the center integrated methods from groups at Salk Institute, Scripps Research, Max Planck Society, Karolinska Institutet, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, and University College London while contributing to national programs run by National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and international funding from European Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
Research spans molecular neurobiology, synaptic physiology, sensory systems, motor control, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, and systems neuroscience, with labs drawing intellectual lineage from investigators at Hubel and Wiesel, Eric Kandel, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Hubel, Wiesel, Seymour Benzer, Jerzy Konorski, Donald Hebb, and groups influenced by work at Santiago Ramón y Cajal-inspired traditions. Laboratories collaborate with groups at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-affiliated programs and with computational teams that interact with researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, and academic centers at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto, University of Montreal, McGill University, Yale University, and Brown University. Specific lab emphases echo contributions from investigators with ties to Rosenberg, Albright, Mountcastle, Georgopoulos, Fetz, Steriade, Buzsáki, Lisman, Hopfield, Ariëns Kappers, Marr, Atallah, Dehaene, Goldman-Rakic, Milner, Penfield, Scoville, Ramachandran, Grossberg, Edelman, Tononi, Friston, Dayan, Doya, Sejnowski, Singer, Gerstner, Izhikevich, Koch, Olshausen, Rao, Pouget, Shadlen, Newsome, and Schwartz.
Teaching programs include graduate and postdoctoral training with coursework and seminars linked historically to curricula at New York University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, University College London, King's College London, and exchanges with École Normale Supérieure, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Seoul National University, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and McMaster University. Graduate rotations and joint training leverage connections with clinical departments at NYU Langone Health, neurology and neurosurgery services at Mount Sinai Health System, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and translational links to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Courses reflect methodologies championed by labs associated with Richard Axel, Linda Buck, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, John O'Keefe, Torsten Wiesel, David Hubel, Brenda Milner, Michael Gazzaniga, and Antonio Damasio.
Facilities include electrophysiology suites, two-photon microscopy, electron microscopy, imaging cores, molecular biology labs, animal facilities, computational clusters, and human neuroimaging suites that parallel resources at Allen Institute for Brain Science, Janelia Research Campus, Salk Institute, Scripps Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Francis Crick Institute, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, McGovern Institute, Picower Institute, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, and shared cores similar to those at Broad Institute. High-performance computing clusters support simulations and analyses using software common to labs at Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Computational Neuroscience Unit, Santa Fe Institute, and computational groups at Google DeepMind and OpenAI.
Faculty and alumni include scientists who have held appointments or collaborations with National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society, Max Planck Society, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome Trust, and who have trained under or collaborated with laureates such as Eric Kandel, Richard Axel, Linda Buck, John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser, Torsten Wiesel, David Hubel, Brenda Milner, Michael Gazzaniga, Antonio Damasio, Christof Koch, Marcus Raichle, Henry Molaison, Wilder Penfield, Korbinian Brodmann, Paul Broca, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Camillo Golgi, Seymour Benzer, Roger Sperry, Hubel, Wiesel, Ila Fiete, Eve Marder, Stephanie Palmer, and others affiliated with institutions such as Columbia University, Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, University College London, Max Planck Institute, Karolinska Institutet, and ETH Zurich.
The center maintains collaborations with hospitals, research institutes, and industry, partnering with NYU Langone Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, Simons Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Kavli Foundation, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Janelia Research Campus, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Siemens Healthineers, GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, and academic networks involving Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University College London, McGill University, University of Toronto, and McMaster University.
Members have received recognition from prize-awarding bodies and societies such as the Nobel Prize, Lasker Award, Gairdner Foundation International Award, Brain Prize, Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, National Medal of Science, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Society for Neuroscience honors. The center's work has influenced large-scale initiatives including the BRAIN Initiative, Human Brain Project, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, and translational efforts with clinical trial networks and industry consortia.
Category:Neuroscience research institutes