Neuroscience at Harvard
Research
Harvard’s vibrant brain science community consists of hundreds of research laboratories located in Boston, Cambridge, and Belmont. Three major sites for labs conducting basic and translational neuroscience research are:
- The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
- The Center for Brain Science (CBS) at Harvard University
- The F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital
Basic, translational and clinical neuroscience labs are also located in neurology, psychiatry, genetics, radiology, medicine and numerous other departments and divisions at Harvard-affiliated hospitals, including:
- McLean Hospital
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Mass. General Hospital
- Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard brain scientists are also members of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
To learn more, visit our Research Areas page and Faculty Directory.
Training
For graduate students,The Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (known as PiN) is an interdepartmental PhD program that offers options for thesis research throughout Harvard and its affiliated hospitals. Currently there are over 150 participating faculty members and over 100 students enrolled in PiN. These students come from diverse scientific, personal and cultural backgrounds.
Harvard also offers these related graduate programs:
- Harvard PhD in Molecules, Cells and Organisms
- Harvard PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Harvard PhD in Biophysics
- Harvard PhD in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology
- Secondary PhD Field in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
For undergraduates, Harvard offers a Neuroscience Concentration (major). There are also concentrations and tracks in several related disciplines: