• The Case School of Medicine has an outstanding reputation: ranking in the top 20 medical schools in the country according to USA News. The Med School currently ranks 13th in 1999 NIH Funding Ranking of Medical Schools among US medical schools

• The Case Neurosciences Program has an outstanding reputation: ranking in the National Academy of Science Rankings, according to a study by the PNAS.

This is an abbreviated list, but it is illustrative:

J. Neuroscience; Neuron, J. Comparative Neurology; Neurobiology of Aging; J. Neurogenetics; J. Neuroscience Research; J. Biological Chemistry; Cell Calcium; Advances in Neuroscience, Neuroscience; J. Molecular Neuroscience; Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System; J. Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutic; Medicinal Chemistry Research; Psychopharmacology; J. Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; J. Neuropathoogy and Applied Neurobiology; Brain Pathology; Neurology; J. Alzheimer’s Disease; Experimental Neurology; Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience; J. Neurobiology; Perspectives on Developmental Neurobiology; J. Neurocytology; Glia

American Cancer Society Cell Biology Study Section; NINDS Council; NINDS NS2B; NINDS NS1; NSF Integrative Biology and Neuroscience; NSF Developmental Neurobiology Panel; NINDS NSDB; NINDS BDCN-2; NIH/CSR Study Section, IFCN-1 member, Neurochemistry-Neuropharmacology Study Section, NIMH; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology #5, VA Merit Review Board for Basic Sciences; VA Merit Review Board for Neurosciences; VA Career Development Board; NIH/CSR Special Emphasis Panels, IFCN-3, August, 1999; MDCN-3; NIH/NIDA-C Study Section, Neurophysiology/Neuroanatomy Subcommittee; NIH/NICHD Study Section, Mental Retardation Research Committee; Hydrocephalus Research Foundation Scientific Review Panel; NINDS, MDCN1 study section; NINDS, MDCN7 study section ; NINDS Training Grant and Career Development Review Commitee; NIMH Molecular, Cellular and Development Neurobiology Grant Review Committee; VISC; BDCN2;

• Lynn Landmesser - President, Soc. for Developmental Biology; Secretary, Society for Neuroscience, McKnight Senior Investigator, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Perluigi Gambetti - President, American Association of Neuropathologists
• Other faculty have served on - Society for Neuroscience: Education Committee, Social Issues Committee, Program Committee, Neuroscience Literacy Committee; Soc. for Neurochemistry: Program Committee; IEEE EMBS: Program Committee

Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., Gliatech, Inc., Acorda Therapeutics, Giner Inc., BrainStim, Biomec,

• Woods Hole Summer courses: Neurobiology Course; Neurophysiology Course
• Society for Neuroscience Short Courses: Signal transduction
• Mexican Society for Neuroscience Short Course: Signal Transduction: Tools and Techniques, Mexico City 6/
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Short course 2000

• Neuroscience Training Grant, Developmental Biology Training Grant, Molecular Biology Training Grant, Biomedical Engineering Training Grant, IGERT consortium, Research Oncology Training Grant, Genetics Training Grant, Aging Training Grant, Sleep Medicine: Neurobiology & Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Research TG

Winter Conference on Neuropeptides, Breckenridge, CO, February, 1996; 8th International Catecholamine Symposium, Asilomar, CA, October, 1996; Gordon Conference on Neurotrophins, Newport RI, June, 1997; Society of Neuroscientists in Africa, Marrakesh, Morocco 1995; American Society for Neurochemistry, Philadelphia, PA 3/1996; American Academy of Neurology, Toronto, ON 4/99; International Meeting on Clozapine, NY, NY, February, 1994; 8th International Conference on In Vivo Methods, Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience, Stony Brook, N.Y., 1999; Cell and Molecular Neurobiology of Aplysia, Cold Spring Harbor, NY; The Neural Computation Project, The Salk Institute, San Diego, CA, 1990; National Science Foundation Workshop, Bio-Control by Neural Networks, Washington, D.C., 1990; Office of Naval Research Workshop, Novel Robotic Actuators, Washington, D.C.1991; Jacques Monod Conference, Locomotion: from neural networks to Cognition, Aussois, France; Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Workshop on Evolution, Neurobiology and Behavior, Fairfax, VA, 1995; Network Modeling, 5th International Conference on Invertebrate Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology, Eilat, Israel, 1997; Neural Networks for Adaptive Behavior and Robotics; 1998; Modeling neural systems, 5th International Congress of Neuroethology, San Diego, California, 1998; Soc. for Neuroscience Symposia on Neurotics. Education for Precollege Students, 1995; NICHD Conference on Control of Genes, Development and Plasticity by Neural Impulses, Bethesda, MD, 1997; Gordon Conference on Cell Contact Adhesion, Andover, NH, 1997, 1999; Keio Symposium, Keio Univ., Tokyo, Japan, 1997; Development, Genes and Diseases, Paris, France, 1999; Gordon Conference on Neural Development, 1992; Int. Soc. of Developmental Neuroscience, la Grande Motte, France, 1992 and Heidelberg, Germany, 2000; CSHL Tyrosine Phosphorylation Meeting, 1999; Gordon Conference on Motile and Contractile Systems, 1996; Fifth International Congress of Neuroethology, 1998; ONR Legged Locomotion Conference, Panama City, Florida, 1999; Conference on Perspectives in the Neurobiology of Movement Control, Baubeuren, Germany, 1999; Gordon Reasearch Conference on Neuroethology: Behavoir, Evolution, And Neurobiology, Oxford, England, 1999; NIG Workshop on Spinal Cord Injury, 1997; Internationl Spinal Research Trust Bermuda, 1996; BioConferences International “Enhancing Neuroregeneration”, D.C., 1997; Runn Course for Neurosurgeons, Woodshole, Ma. 1997; First International Symposium on Brain Regeneration and Repair, Aachen, Germany, 1999; Cold Spring Harbor Conf or Axon Guidance and Developmental Plasticity, CSHL, NY, 1998; Taniguchi Symposium on generation of Neural Diversity and Speccificity, Kyoto, Japan, 1996; 6th Keio International Symposium for the Life Sciences and Medicine, Tokyo, 1999; British Physiological Society Symposium on Oxygen & the Brain, Birmingham, England, 1999