Neurotherapeutics Course
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​Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists is a 3½-day short course to introduce academic researchers to the principles of neurotherapeutics discovery and development. You will find the course useful if you would like to learn how molecules to treat disorders of the nervous system are identified and evaluated prior to entering clinical trials. 
The 11th offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists will be held in Bethesda, Maryland from Tuesday, March 12 to Friday, March 15, 2024. The application period for the 2024 course offering is now open. Complete information on how to submit an application is available here.

The training program is sponsored by the University of California, Davis and the Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research and the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics.


Supported by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grants 1R25NS077582, 1R25NS099170 and 1R25NS129110.

From the 2023 Course Offering

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The 2023 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development was held at the University of California, Davis. Lectures were at the UC Davis Vanderhoef Theater of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

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Students and faculty of the 2023 offering, with guest lecturer Dr. Adrian R. Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Faculty member Gregory Carr, Ph.D. of Johns Hopkins University discussing animal models.
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A student presentation.

From the 2022 Course Offering

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Students and faculty of the 2022 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.
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From the 2020 Course Offering​

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Students and faculty of the 2020 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.

From the 2020 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.

From the 2019 Course Offering

From the 2019 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.


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Students and Faculty of the 2019 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.

From the 2018 Course Offering

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From the 2018 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.
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Students and Faculty of the 2018 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development.

From the 2016 Course Offering

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