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URMC Neurology Research
Our basic research programs concentrate on the cellular and molecular underpinnings of neurological disease. They include both MD and PhD basic research faculty within the department, as well as a number of affiliate and collaborating laboratories and centers within the medical center. The department’s own laboratories are housed in 23,000 sq ft area of modern laboratory space, most newly constructed, with 6200 sq ft of central office and data analysis space. Indeed, over just the past 7 years, almost 20,000 sq ft of new space for labs in neurology and neurosurgery have opened and are already occupied, catapulting Rochester into the ranks of the country’s premier facilities for the study of neural stem cell biology, glial biology, and translational neuromedicine. Neurology's centers and research labs include:
- The Center for Translational Neuromedicine
- Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics
- The Center for Neural Development and Disease
- Batten Disease Center
- Fields Center for FSHD & Neuromuscular Research
- Muscle Study Group
- Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center
- National Registry of Myotonic Dystrophy and Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Patients and Family Members
- Tourette's Study
- NeuroNEXT
- Research Resources
The department has close associations with our colleagues in the Department of Neurosurgery, and in the Divisions of Neuropathology and Neuroradiology. In addition, the department has close interactions with affiliated laboratories and research centers in both the medical center and adjacent university campus that include:

Once Considered Mainly 'Brain Glue,' Astrocytes' Power Revealed

Some Muscular Dystrophy Patients at Increased Risk for Cancer

Scientists Explore Whether What Heals the Head Can Also Heal the Heart

New Network Will Advance Neurological Care

Precision with Stem Cells a Step Forward for Treating M.S., Other Diseases

Stem Cell Efforts to Treat Neurological Disease Bolstered With $4.5 Million




