Neuroscience gains a foothold in the West Bank

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in 09, Mohammad Herzallah, a young Palestinian neuroscientist now at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, set up the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative (PNI), a research and education program at the University al-Quds, whose main campus is in Abu Dis in the West Bank. Despite many obstacles, PNI has trained dozens of students, won a grant of $ 300,000 with Rutgers the US National Institutes of Health, and began publishing papers. A key element is clinical depression plaguing the Palestinian territories. Herzallah, who won the praise of renowned neuroscientists, sees the project as a recipe for "capacity building" -the elusive goal of strengthening research in developing countries.

• ↵ * in the West Bank; Photography by Mahmoud Illean / AP Images

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