Trainees choose an area of Neuroscience research from a broad range of interdisciplinary neuroscience topics. Current research strengths and targeted faculty recruiting at Augusta University include neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s research, stroke, neural regeneration, stem cells, learning and memory processes, and sensory systems. Research in these areas is carried out at one of Augusta University's many outstanding basic and clinical science departments, including the program’s home Department of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine, Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Neurology, Neuropathology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Radiology and research centers such as the Vision Discovery Institute. See below for contact information and research areas of Graduate Program in Neuroscience faculty.
Students will undertake three rotations in research labs during the first semester of the first year, where they will be involved in research projects. These are designed to teach techniques and serve to help students choose a research lab. During the second semester of their first year students will do two research rotations which will serve to help them select a mentor for their dissertation research, chosen after their second semester. Students are expected to receive research training during the rotations and in the lab of their mentor. Students will prepare a written research proposal for their dissertation in consultation with their mentor and a thesis advisory committee that will approve the research proposal. The student is expected to do original research for their dissertation and publish their work in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
