Our Story

The W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience was established with a specific mission: to bring effective treatments to people with spinal cord injury. Based on a commitment to collaboration, all Center facilities and programs are designed to enable cooperative projects and enhance external relationships to combine the knowledge and expertise of academic, corporate, government, public and private partners, and the community.

A Brief History

Determined to alleviate human suffering, in 1997 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, established a world-class neuroscience center. The first-step in fulfilling that commitment was the recruitment of Dr. Wise Young to design and lead a unique program built on a problem-solving, collaborative approach to neuroscience. Dr. Young is recognized as one of the world’s outstanding neuroscientists and a leader in the field of spinal cord Injury. The Center applied for and received a $2.1...

Our Center

The W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience is designed for team science and interactive communication. Planned by Larry Wente and Sterling Plenart of Gertler & Wente Architects, the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience adheres to three principles: the Center accommodates all the technologies needed for multidisciplinary studies; the design fosters collaboration; and, the facility not only is accessible to, but usable by, people in wheelchairs. The design flowed from these...