Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Timothy C. Cope, Ph.D., Director

Wright State's Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) integrates teams of scientists and clinicians across numerous disciplines to collaboratively address fundamental issues in both basic science and clinical neuroscience research. The Center opened in February 2007 as an expansion on the scope and mission of the former Center for Brain Research with the goal of improving our research into neurological, developmental, cognitive, psychiatric and trauma-induced nervous system disorders. [Read about the Grand Opening Ceremony here.]

The CNC seeks to promote a world-class scholarly environment for interaction and collaboration among basic and clinical neuroscientists within and outside Wright State University, according to Timothy Cope, Ph.D., CNC director and chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology. Scientists associated with the Center hope to advance research on the nervous system to levels ranging from cellular and molecular mechanisms to behaviors. The CNC will provide basic and clinical neuroscientists with access to required technology and expertise in core facilities to enable state-of-the-art genomics, proteomics, imaging and informatics approaches to be incorporated in their research.

In October 2007, Wright State University announced that it had received a prestigious Program Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The $4.8 million grant is the first Program Project Grant the university has received. Five university scientists associated with the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center will use the grant to further their research into why full recovery is not always achieved after damaged nerves have regenerated. More information about their research is posted on this site.

Neuroscience News

WSU Hosts Neuroscience Day

The Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience hosted 2008 Neuroscience Day at Wright State University on May 16. Barry Connors, Ph.D., professor and chair of neuroscience at Brown University, presented the keynote address: “Eclectic Electric Synapses in the Brain.” For more information, visit the OMV-SfN web site.

CNC Holds Retreat

Faculty, staff and students associated with the Program Project Grant at the Center for Neuroscience held a retreat on March 6, 2008, at Cox Arboretum Mead Westvaco Theatre. Two sample presentations from that event are available for download as either Power Point slide shows or PDF files:

• Overview presented by Timothy C. Cope, Ph.D., Director PPT | PDF
• Report on Project Four presented by Kathrin Engisch, Ph.D. PPT | PDF

For more information, contact:
Kim Hagler, Coordinator
Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
105J White Hall
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, OH 45435

Phone: (937) 775-4496
E-mail: kimberly.hagler@wright.edu