Neuroscience Graduate Partnerships Program
Facilities
NIH Campus
The main NIH campus takes up 70 acres of wooded land in North Bethesda, MD. It houses the intramural research campus of NIH, which includes about 6,000 scientists and the NIH Clinical Center, the largest clinical research hospital in the world. There are roughly one hundred principal investigators involved in neuroscience at NIH, and their work spans every major subdiscipline of the field.
Neuroscience @ NIH
Porter Neuroscience Research Center
The Porter Neuroscience Research Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the lion's share of neuroscience research at NIH is carried out. It houses neuroscientists from nine institutes.
The monthly student seminar takes place in Porter, and most students in the program join labs based there.
Porter Neuroscience research center
NIH Core Facilities for Neuroscience
The Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility is a resource for fMRI studies, furthering the understanding of the brain and nervous system. It houses three 3 Tesla scanners and one 7 Tesla scanner, and has a full-time staff of 12, currently serving the needs of about 30 investigators across 5 institutes.
The MEG core facility houses a state of the art magnetometer with 275 channels, which can record the magnetic fields of the human brain at very high spatiotemporal resolution. To date the facility has been used for research in memory, perception, emotion, as well as the investigation of the diseased brain.
A collaborative effort providing Labeling/Hybridization, Laser Scanning, and Data Analysis capabilities for NIH investigators seeking high throughput microarray and bioinformatics services.
A NIH-wide resource for the analysis of MRI data.