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- 23 Full-time and 15 affiliate faculty

- 45 graduate students
- Multiple recipients of National Research Service Awards
- Professional instruction in School of Medicine and Dentistry
- World class investigators in basic & translational science
- Federal and privately funded research labs
- Fully supported PhD program with a focus in Neuroscience
- MS degree offered in Anatomical Sciences and Instruction
- Home of Fresh Tissue Lab & Analytical Microscopy Core
- Participating member of the School of Interdisciplinary& Graduate Studies and the MD/PhD Program
Research Groups
Sensory Systems
- Functional organization of visual thalamic nuclei
- Signal transduction & gene-regulation of cell death and survival in retina
- Circuit development of the visual thalamus
- Neurotrophins in regulating gustatory peripheral and central targeting
- Mechanisms of central taste processing
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Development and Plasticity
- Developmental regulation of pituitary hormones
- Development & plasticity of the visual cortex
- Differentiation and regeneration of motor neurons & oligodendrocytes
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Neural Injury and Repair
- Therapeutic strategies for the treatment of spinal cord injury
- Pelvic organ function and chronic pain following spinal cord injury
- Development of novel therapies for skeletal muscle disorders
- Plasticity of peripheral nerves
and spinal cord
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Anatomical Sciences and Instruction
- Innovative approaches in teaching the anatomical sciences
- Structural relations between bones, ligaments and surrounding
neurovasculature
- Anatomy and evolution of mammals
- Tissue responses to xenobiotics and chemotherapy
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