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Florida's First Three-Year Neuroscience Research Doctorate Program

SARASOTA, Fla., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sarasota's Roskamp Institute (Roskamp) today announced the first enrollment of students in its pioneering three-year Ph.D. program through which students will conduct full-time laboratory research with direct mentoring from internationally-recognized scientists. Roskamp is an Affiliated Research Centre (ARC) of the United Kingdom's Open University (OU) and was recently granted a license from the Commission for Independent Education within the Florida Department of Education to begin this program.

"Roskamp has always played a significant role in training and mentoring top quality students, and we are delighted to now have a formal degree-awarding program," said Dr. Fiona Crawford, associate director of Roskamp. "With the enrollment of our first successful applicants, we look forward to further enhancing the Institute and its many partners and collaborators in Florida, as well as the local developing biotechnology community."

"Our Ph.D. program brings the opportunity for postgraduate research students to participate in a one-of-a-kind program that will expose them to a world-class research facility," said Dr. Michael Mullan, director of Roskamp. "They will work side-by-side with exceptional scientists, perform hands-on, laboratory-based research and gain the practical knowledge necessary to succeed in their area of research, and emerge as fully operational professionals."

The Institute has enrolled three students in its Ph.D. program, which will expose them to Roskamp's state-of-the-art technology and will allow them to gain knowledge of the Institute's key divisions, including chemistry, proteomics and molecular biology. The first class of students in the program will pursue dissertation research on Gulf War Syndrome, Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer's disease.

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