Director: Kevin A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
1530 Third Avenue South; SC 930
Birmingham, AL 35294-0017
(205) 934-5802
e-mail: karoth@uab.edu
Administrator: Angie Schmeckebier
Administrative Associate
(205) 934-8344 Fax: (205) 934-6700
e-mail: alsgigi@uab.edu
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The overall mission of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) is to promote and support interdisciplinary neuroscience research, clinical care and education at UAB. Diseases of the nervous system represent some of the most physically and emotionally devastating illnesses afflicting mankind. Brain and spinal cord injury, dementing illnesses, schizophrenia, depression, multiple sclerosis, autism and other neurological and psychiatric diseases often rob patients of their dignity, potential and hope. To make meaningful progress in understanding the mechanisms of brain function and dysfunction and ultimately, to develop disease prevention and treatment strategies, a concerted effort must be placed on establishing highly interactive, interdisciplinary Centers of Neuroscience excellence. Despite significant advances over the last 15 years in understanding many basic neurological processes, development of more effective treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases have been identified as the largest and fastest growing unmet medical need in this country. The institutions that can most rapidly and creatively establish the necessary neuroscience initiatives to facilitate the translation of basic research discoveries into effective therapies will be positioned to lead neurological and psychiatric disease research into the future. The UAB CNC serves as the administrative epicenter of UAB basic and applied neuroscience research and oversees the development of six thematic programs of neuroscience investigation: 1) Neurodevelopment and Neurogenetics; 2) Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics; 3) Neuroregeneration and Plasticity; 4) Behavioral and Cognitive Health; 5) Glial Biology in Medicine; and 6) Neuroimaging. The UAB CNC serves to facilitate and promote internationally-recognized neuroscience research, clinical service and education at UAB and have a tremendous economic benefit for the State of Alabama.