PIRE Program

Collaborative Thesis Research Involving Laboratories Abroad -Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) seeks to catalyze a cultural change in U.S. institutions by establishing innovative models for international collaborative research and education.   This Program allows students to conduct their thesis research collaboratively with a laboratory at Georgetown University and a laboratory in Europe.  Click the LINK to find out more.

Summer Abroad Research Opportunities  -  Under a grant from the German Research Foundation, an International Research Training Group (IRTG) exists between several neuroscience labs in Munich, Germany and at Georgetown University. The focus of this international training program, titled "Brain Signaling: from Neurons to Behavior", is on functional neuroimaging in animals and humans.  Participating institutions in Munich are the Institute for Neuroscience (www.ifn.me.tum.de) and the Center for Functional Imaging (www.nfb.med.tu-muenchen.de, www.neuro.med.tu-muenchen.de) at the Technical University Munich (TUM) as well as the Center for Neurosciences at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich (www.mcn.lmu.de). Both LMU and TUM are ranked among the top 10 universities in Germany, the latter sometimes termed Munich Institute of Technology (or German "MIT").

The IRTG supports research projects of IPN students during summer rotations or, in exceptional cases, for longer durations as part of their thesis projects.

For more information see http://www.irtg.me.tum.de/ or contact: rauscheckerlab@georgetown.edu.

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