New Brunswick, NJ, USA
16 days ago
Postdoctoral Fellow
Recruitment/Posting Title Postdoctoral Fellow Job Category Staff & Executive - Research (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory) Department RWJ-Psychiatry Research Overview New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives. Posting Summary Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the department of Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Jill Rabinowitz and Dr. Danielle Dick are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to contribute to multiple projects focused on the contributions of genetic and environment influences to the development of substance use and disorders and related behavioral conditions. Responsibilities of the Postdoctoral Fellow include designing, organizing, executing and communicating, through scientific journal articles and conference presentations, the results of research studies that further the aims of the labs and the grant(s) that fund the Postdoctoral position. We examine issues such as how genetic and environmental influences change across development; trajectories of risk associated with identified genes; environmental factors that alter risk pathways; genetic influences on subtypes and intermediary phenotypes associated with substance use problems; and the mediating and moderating mechanisms involved in gene-behavior associations.

Our work involves large-scale gene identification projects, mapping genetic and environmental risk across development, and the translation of genetic epidemiological findings to improve prevention, intervention, and treatment. Other responsibilities of this position include providing guidance to undergraduate and graduate students and translating research findings to community members such that it can be used in policy.

Among the key duties of this position are the following: Design, organize, and execute research studies that further the aims of designated work and the grant(s) that fund the postdoctoral position. Communicate, through generation of manuscripts and scientific journal articles and through conference presentations, the results of research studies. Contribute to sponsored project funding applications, including assisting with project ideas, study design, and scientific writing for necessary application documents. Participate in communicating research findings to community members, including such that it can be used in influencing and developing public policy. Provide research guidance and mentoring to undergraduate and graduate students. Position Status Full Time Hours Per Week Daily Work Shift Work Arrangement This position requires a fully on-site work arrangement. FLSA Exempt Grade 99S Position Salary Annual Minimum Salary 0.000 Annual Mid Range Salary 0.000 Annual Maximum Salary 0.000 Standard Hours 37.50 Union Description AAUP Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.



Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month Position Pension Eligibility ABP
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