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The NeuroNexus Institute at UMass Chan Medical School

Nexus: a connection, hub or junction, a connected group or series, the center or focus.

  • The NeuroNexus Institute at UMass Chan Medical School brings together basic scientists, clinicians and trainees with the goal of understanding nervous system function and dysfunction, leading to improved diagnosis and treatment of neurological, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
  • Institute faculty also teach, supervise, and mentor the next generation of academic and industry leaders, medical practitioners and educators. 
  • Our community also reaches out to increase public awareness of nervous system function and diseases, of fact-based scientific investigation, and to reduce the stigma of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Our Mission: From Discoveries to Therapies

The mission of the NeuroNexus Institute at UMass Chan Medical School is to catalyze interactions between basic scientists and translational or clinician scientists, forming interdisciplinary teams that tackle innovative projects, achieve breakthroughs in basic neuroscience knowledge, and accelerate development and implementation of innovative therapies to treat neurological conditions.

Our Vision

To integrate our extensive local community of basic and clinical neuroscientists into a hub of interactions, leading to innovation, discovery, and development of new treatments for neurological disorders, and attract diverse funding sources.

Our Approach is to:

  • Understand principles of nervous system physiology
  • Leverage these principles of neuroscience to understand disease mechanisms
  • Accelerate treatments
  • Educate future generations of academic leaders and medical practitioners
  • Impact patient care
  • Reach out and Educate the public of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond

Mission and Vision

Getting Results…
  • Science for Living: Neurology chair and VA neurology chief, A.M. Barrett, highlights veterans’ link to ALS

    Science for Living: Neurology chair and VA neurology chief, A.M. Barrett, highlights veterans’ link to ALS

    Military veterans face a higher risk of ALS than the civilian population, according to years of studies. UMass Chan researchers are pursuing therapies to address the biological basis for this fatal neurodegenerative disease and work with clinical partners to provide expert rehabilitation for veterans.

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  • Angel Fund for ALS Research donates $711,000 for ALS research at UMass Chan

    Angel Fund for ALS Research donates $711,000 for ALS research at UMass Chan

    The Angel Fund for ALS Research has announced a $711,000 donation to support the research of Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, at UMass Chan Medical School.

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  • Boston Marathon fitting tribute for families touched by ALS

    Boston Marathon a fitting tribute for families touched by ALS

    Sisters Ashley Craig and Lacey Foley joined the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon team in memory of their grandmother. Brothers Dean and Zack Kennedy, PhD’19, are running on the Jake Kennedy ALS Fund team, in honor of their father.

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  • How frontotemporal dementia changes the brain

    How frontotemporal dementia changes the brain

    In a piece written for The Conversation, Fen-Biao Gao, PhD, talks about how frontotemporal dementia changes the brain and the research that is untangling its genetic causes.

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