Penn announces $50M Penn Integrates Knowledge neurosciences initiative

This new $50 million Penn Integrates Knowledge Neuroscience Initiative is in addition to several significant neuroscience initiatives currently underway or planned at Penn including:

• Eighteen faculty positions in the neurosciences added since 2006.
• Dedicated neuroscience facilities in the Fisher Translational Research Center intended to accelerate the conversion of cutting-edge research into new therapies and treatments and funded by a recent $50 million gift from Anne and Jerome Fisher.
• A new Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building in the School of Arts and Sciences designed to integrate research and education in psychology, biology and cognitive sciences.
• Enhanced facilities for Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Center for Functional Neuroimaging.

Penn has been a world leader in neuroscience research and training since 1953 when it founded the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, the nation's first university-wide institute devoted exclusively to neuroscience research.

"We are confident," Daniels said, "that the new Penn Integrates Knowledge Neuroscience Initiative will allow Penn to continue to lead the life-sciences revolution by empowering our world-class faculty and investigators to take giant strides toward improving the health and well being of people around the globe."

Penn supports one of the world's leading neuroscience research communities: 182 faculty from 32 departments across six schools, a pioneering undergraduate program in Biological Basis of Behavior and a Neuroscience Graduate Group that fosters the next generation of neuroscientists.