NYU Shanghai

NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus in NYU’s global network. It aspires to be a world-class research university and attaches great importance to its research. The research institutes were created to respond to this aspiration. Currently it hosts four joint research institutes, namely the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai, the NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai, the NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai and the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai.

NYU - ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai

The NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai is a research institute dedicated to develop a unique research and training environment to advance the understanding of brain function in health and disease. The Institute, built jointly between NYU and ECNU, leverages the existing significant strength of neuroscience research at both universities: systems and cognitive neuroscience, using a range of tools including the development of transgenic primates, molecular and physiological studies of neural circuits, experimental analysis of behavior, microcircuit and large-scale neural circuit modeling, and human-brain imaging.

Institute for the Study of Decision Making

The Center for Neuroeconomics at New York University joined forces with NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, Stern School of Business, Langone School of Medicine and NYU-Shanghai to create the IISDM. Scholars from across the academic spectrum unite to understand how we make decisions with an aim towards treating pathology, understanding consumer behavior and developing better public policies. The IISDM defines a fundamentally new approach to the study of all kinds of decision making.