We are pleased to announce that Washington University has been awarded an NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Interdisciplinary Center Core Grant (P30 NS057105). Washington University received one of only four grants awarded in this new program. These funds, $8 million over five years, will support eight Core facilities for neuroscience research:

• Biospecimen and Clinical Data Acquisition
• Neuroproteomics
• Genomics
• Viral Vectors
• Optical Imaging
  • Bakewell Neuroimaging Lab
  • Alafi Neuroimaging Lab
  • Biology Imaging Lab
• Functional Assessment
  • Animal Behavior
  • In Vitro Physiology
  • In Vivo Physiology
• Informatics
• Administration and Dissemination

Core facilities are open to all members of the Washington University Neuroscience community. The intent in promoting these Cores is to foster collaboration across research specialties and to advance translational research into diseases of the nervous system, consistent with the mission of Biomed 21. David M. Holtzman, M.D., Andrew and Gretchen Jones Professor and Chair of Neurology, is principal investigator of the NIH grant.

The Neuroscience Blueprint Core will be administered through the Hope Center. Significant additional support for this project is provided by the School of Medicine, the Hope Center, the McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function and the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology.

The Neuroscience Blueprint Core is described in a new website:

• http://hopecenter.wustl.edu/blueprint

Each Core has faculty and staff available to help you with training, regulatory issues, experimental design, and grant planning. To learn more about the Cores, click here. For further information, contact Anneliese Schaefer, Hope Center Deputy Director, or Mark Goldberg, Hope Center Director.