Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute
Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute
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We seek an accomplished scientist or physicianscientist eligible for the rank of tenured Associate or Full Professor to join the Department of Neurosurgery under new leadership https://sites.rutgers/neurologicalsurgery/ at Rutgers Health https://rutgershealth/ and Rutgers Brain Health Institute BHI ; https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers/ as Director of the new Neurotechnology Innovation Center (NTICe) at Rutgers Brain Health Institute. The goal of NTICe is to develop a worldclass research center that serves as a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations among basic and translational scientists clinicians engineers and industry partners to propel discovery of innovative groundbreaking neurotechnology that can be brought from the bench to the bedside to treat debilitating neurological and psychiatric diseases. The ideal candidate will be a leader in Translational Neuroscience Neurosurgery Neurology Psychiatry Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation or Biomedical Engineering with an established track record of federally funded research and academic productivity. We seek candidates with a broad interdisciplinary interest in neurotechnology (examples include candidates with expertise in brainmachine interface neural prosthetics genebased neuromodulation etc.. The candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to organize and coordinate efforts among researchers from multidisciplinary scientific and medical backgrounds and possess leadership skills to create an inclusive and culturally diverse collaborative milieu. We offer considerable resources to develop and advance NTICe and to support the Directors own research. The Director will build on existing strengths at Rutgers in Neuroscience Neurosurgery Neurology Psychiatry Engineering Data Science Medical Device Development Biotechnology Technology Transfer and IndustryFaculty Partnership to spearhead pioneering breakthroughs in neurotechnology and improve existing approaches and devices to treat neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Overview
Rutgers offers a vibrant collaborative environment with campuses at Newark New Brunswick/ Piscataway and Camden NJ. Rutgers Health comprises nine schools including New Jersey Medical School Robert W. Johnson Medical School the School of Health Professions and the School of Public Health. The School of Engineering at Rutgers consists of seven departments including Biomedical Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Materials Science & Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering with faculty expertise in cell & tissue engineering neuroprosthetics neural imaging signal processing neural networks & AI robotics biomechanics biocompatible materials nanotechnology and neural systems integration. The School of Arts and Sciences houses the Computer Science department which has abundant expertise in computational neural modeling and data analytics. The large research network includes basic scientists clinicianscientists and clinicians within Rutgers and other institutions in proximity such as New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and East Orange VA Medical Center as well as collaborations with Princeton University. Rutgers Health is a new and comprehensive initiative that combines multiple health care organizations and research centers and institutes to advance patient care research education and training. With an NIH CTSA and a Comprehensive NCI Cancer Center Rutgers offers unique opportunities to speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care. The center will be located in the new Rutgers Health Building in New Brunswick in close proximity to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital BristolMyers Squibb Childrens Hospital and Nokia Bell labs. The new building also includes incubator space to support the creation of new startup companies. The Director will be a Core Member of the Brain Health Institute the umbrella organization for basic and clinical neuroscience research across Rutgers. The Brain Health Institute has five research centers of excellence in Alzheimers Disease Autism Addiction Advanced Human Brain Imaging and Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and contains >300 principal investigators and >900 trainees. Outstanding core facilities will support this position including a new researchdedicated 3T MRI scanner and a human behavioral testing core in collaboration with Princeton University. Several research hospitals affiliated with RWJ /Barnabas Healthcare and the University Hospital at Newark provide additional collaborative settings and partnerships to promote cuttingedge biomedical and clinical research. Rutgers values a culturally diverse faculty; we strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented in medicine candidates. Applicants should submit a CV statement of research accomplishments and names of three to five references to Stella Elkabes Ph.D. Chair of the search committee at .
We seek an accomplished scientist or physicianscientist eligible for the rank of tenured Associate or Full Professor to join the Department of Neurosurgery under new leadership https://sites.rutgers/neurologicalsurgery/ at Rutgers Health https://rutgershealth/ and Rutgers Brain Health Institute BHI ; https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers/ as Director of the new Neurotechnology Innovation Center (NTICe) at Rutgers Brain Health Institute. The goal of NTICe is to develop a worldclass research center that serves as a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations among basic and translational scientists clinicians engineers and industry partners to propel discovery of innovative groundbreaking neurotechnology that can be brought from the bench to the bedside to treat debilitating neurological and psychiatric diseases. The ideal candidate will be a leader in Translational Neuroscience Neurosurgery Neurology Psychiatry Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation or Biomedical Engineering with an established track record of federally funded research and academic productivity. We seek candidates with a broad interdisciplinary interest in neurotechnology (examples include candidates with expertise in brainmachine interface neural prosthetics genebased neuromodulation etc.. The candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to organize and coordinate efforts among researchers from multidisciplinary scientific and medical backgrounds and possess leadership skills to create an inclusive and culturally diverse collaborative milieu. We offer considerable resources to develop and advance NTICe and to support the Directors own research. The Director will build on existing strengths at Rutgers in Neuroscience Neurosurgery Neurology Psychiatry Engineering Data Science Medical Device Development Biotechnology Technology Transfer and IndustryFaculty Partnership to spearhead pioneering breakthroughs in neurotechnology and improve existing approaches and devices to treat neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Overview
Rutgers offers a vibrant collaborative environment with campuses at Newark New Brunswick/ Piscataway and Camden NJ. Rutgers Health comprises nine schools including New Jersey Medical School Robert W. Johnson Medical School the School of Health Professions and the School of Public Health. The School of Engineering at Rutgers consists of seven departments including Biomedical Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Materials Science & Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering with faculty expertise in cell & tissue engineering neuroprosthetics neural imaging signal processing neural networks & AI robotics biomechanics biocompatible materials nanotechnology and neural systems integration. The School of Arts and Sciences houses the Computer Science department which has abundant expertise in computational neural modeling and data analytics. The large research network includes basic scientists clinicianscientists and clinicians within Rutgers and other institutions in proximity such as New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and East Orange VA Medical Center as well as collaborations with Princeton University. Rutgers Health is a new and comprehensive initiative that combines multiple health care organizations and research centers and institutes to advance patient care research education and training. With an NIH CTSA and a Comprehensive NCI Cancer Center Rutgers offers unique opportunities to speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care. The center will be located in the new Rutgers Health Building in New Brunswick in close proximity to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital BristolMyers Squibb Childrens Hospital and Nokia Bell labs. The new building also includes incubator space to support the creation of new startup companies. The Director will be a Core Member of the Brain Health Institute the umbrella organization for basic and clinical neuroscience research across Rutgers. The Brain Health Institute has five research centers of excellence in Alzheimers Disease Autism Addiction Advanced Human Brain Imaging and Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and contains >300 principal investigators and >900 trainees. Outstanding core facilities will support this position including a new researchdedicated 3T MRI scanner and a human behavioral testing core in collaboration with Princeton University. Several research hospitals affiliated with RWJ /Barnabas Healthcare and the University Hospital at Newark provide additional collaborative settings and partnerships to promote cuttingedge biomedical and clinical research. Rutgers values a culturally diverse faculty; we strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented in medicine candidates. Applicants should submit a CV statement of research accomplishments and names of three to five references to Stella Elkabes Ph.D. Chair of the search committee at .
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