Neuroscience, PhD

Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD
Director, Neuroscience Center of Excellence

Hamilton Farris, PhD
Neuroscience Graduate Program Co-Director

The Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program is based at the LSU Neuroscience Center of Excellence, a multi-disciplinary center. The Neuroscience Center fosters inter-actions and collaborations among neuroscientists and has created a rich and stimulating environment for graduate education. In addition to pre-doctoral training, post-doctoral training is also available.
The program offers pre-doctoral research training in fundamental neurosciences. The program leads to a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is offered by faculty members from twelve departments of the Health Sciences Center and the University of New Orleans. The breadth of research programs of the faculty encompasses all major areas of human cellular and molecular neurosciences, including the neurobiology of disease. Training is designed to provide students a broad, general knowledge of neuroscience along with more intensive training in a highly specialized topic for academic and/or industrial research or teaching positions.

Applications to the graduate program in Neuroscience are reviewed by a faculty committee. To be considered for acceptance into the program, applications should be received in January of the year in which the students intend to enroll. Usually, all accepted students receive a graduate stipend. Minimum requirements for admission to the program include a degree from a university or its equivalent and achievement of a 2.5 overall grade point average and a 3.0 average in science course. Evaluation of applications may include the GRE. Applicants are expected to have a combined score of ≥315. Foreign applicants are required to achieve at least 550 on the TOEFL exam.