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Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology
The Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology (formerly the University Research Centre for Neuroendocrinology (URCN)) is a multi-disciplinary research centre with interests from the most basic molecular biology to clinical endocrinology.
Our research:
- Molecular mechanisms of hypothalamic and pituitary function
- Neuropeptides in the central and peripheral nervous systems
- Viral and synthetic vectors for gene transfer and gene therapy
- Heat shock proteins and neuroprotection
- Signal transduction mechanisms
- Growth hormone receptor function
- Neuroendocrine responses to stress and disease
- Neuroendocrine interactions with the immune system
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Thyroid and pancreatic cell islet cell autoimmunity
- Clinical endocrinology and neuroendocrinology
- Alzheimer's disease. In Silico Search and design of therapeutics
Our courses:
- A one year MSc in Molecular Neuroscience
- Various PhD opportunities.
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