Doctoral Program
The Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of Texas, GSBS provides neuroscience graduate training in the largest and one of the most highly interactive scientific environments available in the world. The Texas Medical Center is the home of two medical schools, two nursing schools, seventeen hospitals and numerous research institutes. The GSBS includes over 400 full time faculty members and an equal number of fulltime graduate students. The faculty who participate in the Graduate Program in Neurosciences come together from many Texas Medical Center schools and departments, the University of Texas Health Science Center-School of Medicine, the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center and from a numerous affiliated institutes and Universities, including Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center. An enormous breadth of neuroscience research interests is represented among the faculty providing students the opportunity to pursue study in a wide range of neuroscience areas.
The Neuroscience Graduate Program currently includes more than 50 faculty members whose research interests are described on this web site. The program consists of approximately forty graduate students and over twenty postdoctoral fellows. A common purpose of the entire faculty in the Neuroscience Graduate Program is to foster an environment that prepares students to pursue creative and innovative scientific research.
Students interested in pursuing clinical neuroscience research may explore the MD/PhD program that provides clinical training in additional to research experience.
