Morehouse And Harvard Partnership In Neuroscience Growth (MAHPING)

We are excited to share two new MAHPING collaborations for the upcoming academic year.

• First, we look forward to welcoming rising MSM BS/MS Master's students to HMS on September, 24, 2024 to give research presentations alongside HMS PiNBAC trainees at the third annual Synaptogenesis RA Symposium. Synaptogenesis was created to provide a platform for HMS research assistants and post-baccalaureate trainees to present their research to the neuroscience community; this year we are delighted to expand the program to include our colleagues from MSM!
• Second, we are excited to launch the MAHPING Faculty/Trainee Microexchange program, which provides the opportunity for pairs of neuroscience researchers (a faculty member and one of their trainees) to visit the partner institution over a few days to present their research, engage in educational programming for trainees, and network with the hosting institution's community. In Fall 2024 MSM will be hosting two pairs of faculty-trainees for the inaugural visits.

Stay tuned for more details!

The Morehouse And Harvard Partnership in Neuroscience Growth (MAHPING) Initiative is an innovative, bi-directional partnership between the neuroscience communities at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) that is catalyzing robust research and educational collaborations between our two institutions. The MAHPING Initiative builds upon a rich history of neuroscience collaboration between HMS and MSM and aims to promote inclusive exellence in neuroscience research and education. We are leveraging bi-directional exchange and authentic collaboration to enhance efforts to recruit and retain a diverse neuroscience workforce and to mutually strengthen research and educational efforts at both institutions.

MAHPING is affiliated with the HMS Department of Neurobiology and the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN), as well as the MSM Neuroscience Institute and the MSM BS/MS Program in Neuroscience. MAHPING is Co-Directed by Tari Tan, PhD (Lecturer on Neurobiology at HMS and Director of Education for PiN & HMS Neurobiology) and Morris Benveniste, PhD (Professor of Neurobiology at MSM and Director of the MSM BS/MS Program in Neuroscience). The initiative is currently supported by the Simons Foundation, the HMS Dean's Innovation Awards in Diversity & Inclusion, and NINDS.