HMS/BCH Center for Neuroscience Research

摘要 在这个支持神经科学研究的机构中心核心拨款中，我们建议继续发展 一个创新的成像中心，为NINDS资助的哈佛医学院（HMS）和波士顿儿童医院提供服务。 医院（BCH）研究者。这一最先进的核心设施为HMS提供了重要的资源， BCH神经科学社区，并将执行基本服务，这是困难和不切实际的， 各实验室自行提供。实验机会和创新服务 由成像中心提供的将使地区神经科学家获得独特的设备和培训， 几种新的尖端方法，极大地受益于NINDS资助的研究计划 这些机构的调查人员。此外，该中心将作为协调一致努力的核心， 加强HMS和BCH神经科学社区之间的联系。通过继续 这个中心的发展，我们希望从一个完全依赖个人实验室为中心的转变， 研究，以更具有成本效益和生产力的使用非凡的核心，同时进一步深化现有的 这两个充满活力的神经科学团体之间的联系。

Abstract In this Institutional Center Core Grant to Support Neuroscience Research, we propose to continue to develop an innovative Imaging Center that serves NINDS-funded Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) investigators. This state-of-the-art core facility provides important resources to the HMS and BCH neuroscience community, and will perform essential services that are difficult and impractical for individual laboratories to provide on their own. The experimental opportunities and innovative services provided by the Imaging Center will give area neuroscientists access to unique equipment and training in several new cutting-edge methodologies, greatly benefiting the research programs of NINDS-funded investigators at these institutions. Moreover, the Center will function as the centerpiece of a concerted effort to strengthen ties between the neuroscience communities at HMS and BCH. Through the continued development of this Center, we hope to shift from a complete reliance on individual laboratory-centered research to a more cost-effective and productive use of extraordinary cores while further deepening existing ties between these two vibrant neuroscience communities.