NEUROSCIENCE
PHD PROGRAM

Boys Town National Research Hospital and Creighton University have partnered to offer a doctoral program in Pharmacology and Neuroscience. The Institute for Human Neuroscience brings internationally renowned neuroimaging and systems neuroscience expertise to the program, which builds on Creighton’s cutting-edge expertise in molecular and cellular neuroscience. Areas of focus include developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience of aging, clinical cognitive neuroscience, neural bases of psychiatric disorders, as well as motor and sensory neuroscience. Doctoral students in our programs have been broadly successful in receiving highly competitive NIH fellowships and other major national and international awards, as well as serving as first-authors on high impact publications. 

Students in these subareas of the doctoral program work hands-on with incredible faculty from the Institute for Human Neuroscience, where there is collectively over $55 million in active NIH funding. They will also have access to unrivaled neuroimaging facilities, which include: 

  • The world's only site with two state-of-the-art Triux Neo MEGs

  • The highest density optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) system in North America 

  • A research-dedicated 3 Tesla Siemens Prisma MRI, with high performance gradients

  • The highest density transcranial electrical stimulation (tES/tDCS/tACS) system currently available

  • Mock MRI scanner 

  • State-of-the-art motor physiology lab 

  • The Orion computer cluster

For more information about our state-of-the-art equipment, click here.