Faculty + Research

What sets the Picower Institute apart? A faculty with the skills to examine the complexity of the brain from its molecules, to its cells, to its circuits, to the cognitive system as a whole—and the skills to integrate those diverse findings into a coherent concept of the human mind.

With backgrounds from molecular biology and genetics to physiology and systems biology, the Picower Institute's principal investigators share a passion for deciphering the "plasticity" of the brain: how it shapes the developing brain in infancy, how it governs our ability to remember and learn, and how it goes awry in a range of crippling brain diseases, from Alzheimer's to schizophrenia.

The Institute features a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary strategy that spawns exciting joint projects between its various labs. Many Picower faculty are also inventors of unique technologies and techniques that are redefining the practice of neuroscience.