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Neuroscience at the University of Miami:
The People
The Faculty
The Neuroscience Program is a broad interdisciplinary program that unites neuroscientists from three campuses and more than a dozen basic science and clinical departments. I ts faculty members are housed in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Physiology and Biophysics, Psychiatry, and Psychology, and the Marine School.
Faculty research interests focus on the mechanisms involved in cellular communication and signal transduction, gene expression in electrically excitable cells, synapse formation, neuronal growth and survival, neuroglia, and neuron-target cell recognition. Other areas of faculty research include neuroimmunology, autonomic control, cerebral metabolism and blood flow, and degenerative changes within specific neural pathways in neurological disorders and stroke. Program faculty members work in basic science departments as well as such prominent research centers as the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Neurotrauma Research Center, and the Cerebrovascular Disease Center.
Students and Postdocs
The University of Miami currently enrolls 14,000 students, including about 2,600 graduate students. Approximately 35 graduate students and 40 postdoctoral fellows are currently working in the laboratories of Neuroscience Program members.
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