Stanford School of Medicine
Neuroscience Institute at Stanford–

Working Groups

The Institute is composed of Working Groups that build on Stanford’s unique success in creating new knowledge at the interface between disciplines. This unique research environment is creating unprecedented opportunities to motivate and sustain interdisciplinary investigations of the highest quality. Each Working Group tackles problems in fundamental neuroscience or in the biology and treatment of nervous system disorders.

 

Composed of faculty in the basic and clinical sciences the Working Groups have the following goals:

- Define the status of the field with respect to both basic science and clinical perspectives

- Outline the gaps in understanding that limit progress

- Invest new resources where they are likely to produce the greatest near term benefit in terms of new tools, concepts or treatments

- Manage the research effort by bringing in needed skills and by building the industry contacts eventually needed to exploit research discoveries

- Support collaboration with industry to develop discoveries

- Plan and supervise the trials needed to prove clinical benefit of new treatments

 

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