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Harvard Medical School (HMS) Neurobiology Department stands for excellence and inclusion in neuroscience research, training, and education. In over 30 research laboratories, neuroscience is studied at the molecular, cellular, circuit and systems levels, fueled both by curiosity as well as a commitment to address diseases of the nervous system. HMS’s mission to educate and train the next generation of neuroscientists is supported by graduate programs at Harvard including the Program in Neuroscience (PiN), the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, and others. Neuroscience faculty actively participate in teaching the PiN curriculum and mentor trainees in their labs. A Neuro Postdoc Club offers postdocs a way to meet individuals in other labs through career development activities, social gatherings, and scientific presentations. The department was instrumental in establishing the Harvard Brain Science Initiative in 2014 to unite neuroscience research efforts across Harvard (from HMS Quad to departments in the Harvard-affiliated hospitals to the Center for Brain Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences).
The Zambia Institute of Neurological Care, Research, and Education (ZINCARE) is a multi-institutional collaboration between academic neurology departments in the United States, the University of Zambia School of Medicine, and the Zambian Ministry of Health. It is based at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka which is the largest tertiary care center in Zambia. ZINCARE’s mission to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases in Zambia through research initiatives and training programs to reduce the disease burden and maximize quality of life for all Zambians. It has trained the first class of Zambian adult and pediatric neurologists. It has published seminal studies describing the neurologic disease burden in the country and region. It has now expanded its mission to train neurologists in neighboring countries that have no local training programs or neurologists.
