Promoting and supporting interdisciplinary neuroscience research, clinical care, and education at UAB

The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) is a network of more than 500 UAB neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students, and trainees from 32 UAB departments and 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB.

Faculty

Strategic Faculty Recruitment Program in Neuroscience

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM) is recruiting up to 20 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the neurosciences to build on a strong portfolio across basic and translational research.

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Events

CNC Retreat 2024

The CNC sponsors an annual retreat for the UAB neuroscience community. The retreat usually features external keynote speakers, new UAB faculty presentations, and trainee oral & poster presentations with presentation awards.

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Education

Neuroscience Research and Education

UAB offers multiple paths to careers in the neuroscience workforce. Students may find their calling as clinicians or clinician-scientists working with patients in any number of neuro-related specialties or find their calling with fundamental science.

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Latest Headlines

Human proteins identified that explain inter-individual differences in functional brain connectivity
This is a step toward an understanding of the brain that ultimately describes the mechanistic basis of human cognition and behavior.
Sun wins a highly competitive, five-year NIH Director’s Pioneer award
The National Institute on Drug Abuse award is designed to stimulate innovation and potentially transformative research from early stage investigators.
Memory loss in aging and dementia: Dendritic spine head diameter predicts memory in old age
This finding suggests that therapy to remodel synapses could help memory in old age and dementia patients.

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