The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust committed a transformational $45 million grant to the University of Iowa that supported the creation of a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary neuroscience center within the Carver College of Medicine

The Iowa Neuroscience Institute provides a mechanism for establishing collaborative opportunities for the existing neuroscience community, as well as being the home for a substantial number of new faculty members with diverse neuroscience research interests. The institute creates synergy within the broad neuroscience community leading to transformative research and an intellectually stimulating environment that supports innovation in basic science, opportunities for translational applications and creative means to understand how the nervous system mediates behavior and how this goes awry in neurodevelopmental, psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Worthington Biomedical Engineering Research

140+

Members

Dr. Gantz in research lab

8

UI Colleges represented in the INI

Dr. Geerling research lab

26

Departments with INI faculty members

Upcoming INI Events

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, January 27, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Melissa Brotman, PhD, "Translation, treatment and technology: An integrative approach to pediatric psychopathology"

Friday, February 14, 2025 12:00pm
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series, featuring  Melissa Brotman, PhD Chief of the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit, Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health  "Translation, treatment and technology: An integrative approach to pediatric psychopathology" Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, noon CST Pediatric Conference Center JCP 2415 More information to come!  

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, February 24, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Iowa Neuroscience Institute Seminar: Matthew Leonard, PhD

Friday, March 7, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building
"Speech and language computation in the human superior temporal gyrus" Matthew Leonard, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neurological Surgery Weill Institute for Neurosciences University of California, San Francisco