NINDS Institutional National Research Service Award (T32) Programs

Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Training Program in Brain Tumor Biology
Program Director: Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D. 

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Training Program in Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders
Program Director: Farah Lubin, Ph.D.

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: UAB Training Program in Neurodegeneration
Program Director: Erik Roberson, M.D./Ph.D. 

California

Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Title: Quantitative Neuroscience Spanning Molecules, Cells, Circuits, and Behavior
Program Director: Samuel Pfaff, Ph.D.

University of California Irvine
Title: Epilepsy Research Training Program
Program Director: Tallie Baram, M.D./Ph.D.

University of California Irvine
Title: Neuroimmunology Training Program
Program Director: Thomas Lane, Ph.D.

University of California Irvine
Title: Training Program in Stem Cell Translational Medicine for Neurological Disorders
Program Director: Leslie Thompson, Ph.D.

University of California Los Angeles
Title: Training Grant in Neurobehavioral Genetics
Program Director: Roel Ophoff, Ph.D.

University of California San Diego
Title: Neural Circuits Postdoctoral Training Program
Program Director: Yishi Jin, Ph.D.

University of California San Francisco
Title: ENLIGHTEN (ENgaging Leaders In Global and local HealTh Equity in Neurology)
Program Director: Bruce Ovbiagele, M.D.

Connecticut

Yale University
Title: Neurobiology of Cortical Systems
Program Director: Jessica Cardin, Ph.D. 

Yale University
Title: Yale Clinical and Epidemiology Research in Neurology (CERN) Training Program
Program Director: Serena Spudich, M.D. 

District of Columbia

Children's Research Institute
Title: District of Columbia T32 on Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Research (DC NDD T32)
Program Director: Tarik Haydar, Ph.D.  

Georgetown University
Title: Neural Injury and Plasticity
Program Director: Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, Ph.D.  

Georgetown University
Title: Training Program in NeuroHIV (TPNH)
Program Director: Italo Mocchetti, Ph.D. 

Florida

University of Florida
Title: Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration
Program Director: Dawn Bowers, Ph.D. 

Illinois

Northwestern University
Title: Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition
Program Director: Ken Paller, Ph.D.

University of Chicago
Title: Neural, Computational, and Neuromechanical Approaches to Motor Control
Program Director: Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Ph.D.

 Iowa

University of Iowa
Title: Interdisciplinary Training Program in Pain Research
Program Director: Yuriy Usachev, Ph.D. 

Kentucky

University of Kentucky
Title: Neurobiology of CNS Injury and Repair
Program Director: Kathryn Saatman, Ph.D. 

Maryland

Johns Hopkins University
Title: Interdisciplinary Training in Biobehavioral Pain Research
Program Director: Michael T. Smith, Ph.D. 

Massachusetts

Boston Children's Hospital
Title: Quantitative Neuroscience: From Genes to Behavior
Program Director: Thomas Schwarz, Ph.D.

Boston University
Title: Graduate Training at the Interface of Neuroscience, Optical Engineering and Data Science
Program Director: David Boas, Ph.D.

Brandeis University
Title: Quantitative Neuroscience: Tools for Bridging Levels of Analysis
Program Director: Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Program in Recovery and Restoration of CNS Health and Function
Program Director: Jonathan Rosand, M.D. 

Michigan

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Title: Training in Clinical and Basic Neuroscience
Program Director: Henry Paulson, Ph.D.  

Missouri

Washington University
Title: TriMED: Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating Excitability and Disease
Program Director: Colin Nichols, Ph.D. 

Washington University
Title: Interdisciplinary Training in Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN)
Program Director: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Ph.D. 

Nebraska

University of Nebraska
Title: Neuroimmunology of Disease Training Program
Program Director: Daniel Monaghan, Ph.D. 

New York

Columbia University Health Sciences
Title: Advanced Graduate Training Program in Theoretical Neuroscience
Program Director: Laurence Abbott, Ph.D.

Columbia University 
Title: Advanced Graduate Training Program in Neurobiology & Behavior
Program Director: Ulrich Hengst, Ph.D.

Columbia University Health Sciences
Title: Neuroepidemiology Training Program
Program Director: Joshua Willey, Ph.D.

New York University
Title: Integrative Approaches to Explore Cellular Interactions in Neural Circuits
Program Director: Jeremy Dasen, Ph.D.

University of Rochester
Title: Experimental Therapeutics in Neurological Disease
Program Director: Robert Griggs, M.D.

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University
Title: Training in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Program Director: Xiongwei Zhu, Ph.D.

Ohio State University
Title: Training Program in Neuroimmunology
Program Director: Jonathan Godbout, Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati
Title: Cerebrovascular Fellowship Training Program
Program Director: Daniel Woo, M.D. 

Pennsylvania

Carnegie-Mellon University
Title: Training Program in Big Data Systems Neuroscience
Program Director: Aryn Gittis, Ph.D. 

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Title: Training Grant in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Program Director: Amelia Eisch, Ph.D. 

Drexel University
Title: Training Program on Innovative Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury
Program Director: Peter Baas, Ph.D. 

Pennsylvania State University
Title: Cross-Disciplinary Neural Engineering (CDNE) Training Program
Program Director: Bruce Gluckman, Ph.D. 

University of Pennsylvania
Title: Remapping Clinical Neuroscience through Translation and Innovation Training (ReCoNnecT-IT)
Program Director: Frances Jensen, M.D.

University of Pennsylvania
Title: Neurologic Clinical Epidemiology Training Program
Program Director: Scott Kasner, M.D.

University of Pennsylvania
Title: Training Program in Neuroengineering and Medicine
Program Director: Brian Litt, M.D.

University of Pennsylvania
Title: Brain Injury Training Grant
Program Director: Douglas Smith, M.D.

University of Pittsburgh
Title: Training in Mechanisms and Clinical Presentation of Pain
Program Director: Michael S. Gold, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh
Title: Training in the Neurobiology of Neurodegenerative Disease
Program Director: Peter Strick, Ph.D.

Texas

Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Title: Training in Neural Control of Organ Degeneration and Regeneration (NeuralCODR)
Program Director: Philip J. Horner, Ph.D.

University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Title: The University of Texas Houston Stroke Training Program
Program Director: Sean I. Savitz, M.D.

Utah

University of Utah
Title: The Neuroimmunology Training Program at the University of Utah
Program Director: Ryan M. O'Connell, Ph.D.

Virginia

University of Virginia
Title: Brain, Immunology and Glia Training Program
Program Director: Tajie H. Harris, Ph.D.

 

Contact

Stephen Korn, Ph.D.
Office of Training & Workforce Development
korns@ninds.nih.gov

Related Resources

NRSA FY2024 Stipend Levels

Role of NINDS T32 Programs in Training a Diverse Workforce(pdf, 271 KB) 

Understanding NINDS Institutional Training Grant (T32) Application and Review(pdf, 71 KB) 

Training Outcomes Data

How to Apply