NINDS Neuroscience Training Grant
The Integrative Neuroscience Program, in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, announces a training program in “Integrative Neuroscience in Health and Disease” funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which will support 2 predoctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows annually.
The goals of this training grant are to 1) train neuroscientists who have a broad understanding and acquaintance with the sub-fields of neuroscience and 2) provide financial support to collaborative research projects that join laboratories with differing intellectual and/or experimental expertise. These goals are aimed at producing neuroscientists who will work on the entire breadth of neurological disease including degenerations, drug addiction, obesity, epilepsy, pain, and language and learning disorders, and at promoting interaction among fields of neuroscience from behavior to molecular biology to stimulate innovative and therapeutic breakthroughs.
The program builds upon the successful joint program between the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University in Newark. Trainees, therefore, will have access to the facilities of both schools, which lie within minutes of each other. The 35 faculty mentors are distributed between the two schools and are members of 9 different basic and clinical science departments as well as members of the Integrative Neuroscience Program, the Howard Hughes Quantitative Neuroscience Program, and the Program in Biomedical Engineering.
The program will have advisors for both pre- and postdoctoral trainees, as well as student and postdoctoral representatives to ensure a high quality of supervision, a fulfilling training experience, and successful career advancement.
Training faculty
For Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience:
Joshua Berlin, Annie Beuve, Stella Elkabes, Wilma Friedman, Richard Howells, G. Miller Jonakait, Eldo Kuzhikandathil, Robert Ledeen, Steve Levison, Joseph McArdle, Andrew Pachner, Christine Rohowsky-Kochan, Ellen Townes-Anderson, Teresa Wood, Jiang-Hong Ye, Marco Zarbin.
For Systems Neuroscience:
Elizabeth Abercrombie Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ken Harris, Barry Levin, Farzan Nadim, Denis Pare, Vanessa Routh, Hreday, Sapru, Allan Siegel, Ralph Siegel, James Tepper, Laszlo Zaborsky.
For Behavior and Cognition:
April Benasich. John DeLuca, Mark Gluck, Joan Morrell, Richard Servatius, Paula Tallal.
Applicants should contact the training program director (Ellen Townes-Anderson) or the individual faculty listed above. Contact information and research information are available on the INS Information Portal. All candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents. Doctoral students are supported after successful completion of the Qualifying Exams. Postdoctoral support is for 1-2 years and is available for postdoctoral fellows at any level.
For more information, please contact:
Ellen Townes-Anderson PhD
Director of NINDS Training Grant in Integrative Neuroscience
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
New Jersey Medical School-UMDNJ
andersel@umdnj.edu
973-972-7392