Neuroscience Training Program
Among the graduate programs offered at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison is neuroscience.
The Neuroscience Training Program offers research training in areas from molecular neuroscience to integrative systems and computational modeling. The program has been preparing students for research and teaching in neuroscience for more than 25 years. Over 95 percent of the program's graduates have careers in the biomedical sciences.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health offers the PhD degree in neuroscience through the Neuroscience Training Program. The program is directed by an interdepartmental training committee, comprising approximately 25 faculty members and two student representatives. The program offers only the PhD degree, and progress toward this degree follows regular UW-Madison Graduate School procedures.
Applications will be considered for the MD and PhD degree program, which is sponsored in cooperation with the medical school. Members of the program come from various departments on campus, including:
There are 65 faculty members from many departments across the UW-Madison campus and 30 graduate students in the program. Faculty in the program offer graduate research training of remarkable diversity, spanning the entire breadth of modern neuroscience, from molecular through systems and cognitive, and involving applications that range from conscienceless organisms to primates. This broad research scope is coupled with a commensurate level of freedom in reaching educational goals.
There are, for example, few specific course requirements for the PhD degree; instead, each student's training is tailored to meet individual needs. Students who are independent, who want to play a role in determining their graduate education, and who wish to combine concepts and techniques from different areas of neuroscience in their research will find the program to be compatible.
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