The overall mission of the IRPN is to promote research and education in neurosciences by fostering established collaborations between outstanding neuroscientists committed to research and teaching and developing new collaborations with others across the College of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, and USF. Within this overall broad mission, IRP'S goals are:
- The provision of education and training opportunities for future neuroscientists at graduate and post-graduate levels for both basic scientists and medical students.
- Coalescing the exiting strengths in both clinical and basic neurosciences programs and thus enhances the ability to bring the results of bench research to clinical application.
- Enhancing the ability of IRPN and its component Divisions as well as the departments of neurology, neurosurgery, and the Center for Aging and Brain Repair (CABR) and other USF neurosciences components to carry out cutting edge research by providing excellent research space and state of the art core clinical and laboratory facilities that make such research possible.
Our goal is to bring together clinicians and scientists to grapple in a systematic way with the complex problems posed by developmental, neurodegenerative, and psychiatric disorders to advance the understanding of neurobehavioral diseases and the therapeutic prospects from our work. We are ideally suited as behavioral neuroscientists to facilitate the intricate science involved as well as to identify the life circumstances surrounding these disorders that will promote quality of life and maintenance of hope among these individuals and their families.
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