Great news for our School, Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved a resolution to create a new Ph.D. degree program in neuroscience in the College of Science’s School of Neuroscience. The new degree program will prepare students to specialize in interdisciplinary research in molecular and computational neuroscience to understand and inform how the human brain functions, to develop treatment strategies and interventions for human neurological disease, and to develop neuroscience technologies to benefit society.

Pending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the new Ph.D program in neuroscience will be offered starting in the fall of 2020.

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