Rutgers Brain Health Institute Recruiting Post-Docs in Neuroscience & Mental Health Research

Piscataway, NJ             ·            Full time

Rutgers Brain Health Institute Recruiting Post-Docs in Neuroscience & Mental Health Research

Employer: Rutgers Brain Health Institute

Location: Piscataway, New Brunswick and Newark, New Jersey

Salary: Highly Competitive salary above NRSA scale with excellent health & retirement benefits

Closing date: Sep 29, 2023

Sector: Biotech or Pharmaceutical, Government, Graduate School or University, Hospital, Independent Research Institute, Medical, Veterinary or Dental School, Undergraduate College

Job Function: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Area: Cognition, Development, Integrative Physiology & Behavior, Motivation & Emotion, Motor Systems, Neural Excitability, Synapses, & Glia, Neurodegenerative Disorders & Injury, Sensory Systems

Position Type: Full Time

Level: Any Experience Level Considered

Job Details

The Brain Health Institute (BHI) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was established in 2014 to become an internationally recognized center for basic, translational, and clinical research into the biological bases of human brain function and dysfunction. Over the past decade, BHI has grown to include more than 300 faculty engaged in neuroscience and brain health related research at Rutgers. The research programs span multiple disciplines with faculty across 33 departments and seven schools of various campuses of Rutgers University and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. To strategically grow neuroscience and brain health research, BHI has identified four areas of outstanding strength within Rutgers. The four focus areas are: Neurodevelopment, Neurodegeneration and Injury, Cognitive and Sensory Neuroscience and Motivational and Affective Neuroscience. BHI has developed Centers of Excellence in each of these focus areas. The breadth of faculty expertise, core facilities, mentoring and career development support at Rutgers is outstanding. Post-doctoral training at Rutgers is a stepping stone to a successful career in neuroscience and brain health research! We invite you to submit your application to attend this exciting two-day all-expenses-paid event on Rutgers New Brunswick campus!

The BHI Postdoc Recruitment Event is a two-day event, designed for PhD or MD/PhD students and current post-docs looking for postdoctoral training in basic, translational, and clinical research in neuroscience and connect them with Rutgers faculty interested in recruiting post-docs. We will select up to 20 highly qualified candidates to attend this all-expenses-paid event. We are particularly interested in candidates from groups underrepresented in biomedical and health sciences. Apply by September 30, 2023 at https://forms.gle/Xx9yq8gj4uUPHWdk6 or contact us bhi@bhi.rutgers.edu. Selected candidates will be notified by October 2023 and, soon after, we will help make your travel arrangements to visit Rutgers.

Company

The goal of the Brain Health Institute (BHI) is to develop neuroscience at Rutgers to become a highly translational and internationally preeminent research enterprise. New tools are transforming neuroscience, and these afford an unprecedented opportunity to create new treatments for central nervous system disorders. Neuroscience has been identified by Rutgers University as one of five signature areas for future focus and development. As part of this strategic plan, the BHI was established to become an internationally recognized center for basic, translational, and clinical research into the biological bases of human brain function and dysfunction. The BHI is the home for the overall Rutgers neuroscience initiative, and is a growing interdisciplinary institute consisting of more than 250 principal investigators with neuroscience laboratories across various campuses of Rutgers University and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

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