University of California San Francisco Three post-doctoral fellowships in translational neuroscience of schizophrenia. Sponsor(s): NIMH Application Date(s): Beginning April 1, 2010

The NIMH-funded T32 Training Grant (Neurobiological mechanisms underlying the symptoms and course of schizophrenia) at the University of California in San Francisco is now accepting applications for post-doctoral fellowships from recent PhDs, MDs, and MD/PhDs.

Trainees will work in labs studying the neurobiological mechanisms of the symptoms of schizophrenia and its neuro-developmental and neuro-degenerative course. The core T32 faculty are basic neuroscientists and psychiatrists, working in genetics, brain imaging, electrophysiology, and neuroplasticity. They are: Steve Batki, William Byerley, Benjamin Cheyette, Allison Doupe, Judith Ford, Steven Hamilton, Daniel Mathalon, John Rubenstein, Susan Voglmaier, Sophia Vinogradov, and Mark von Zastrow.

T32 Trainees will have extended experience in a laboratory, leading to the submission of research papers and grant proposals. Trainees will be dual-mentored with Research and Career Mentors to guide them both formally and informally, through learning neurobiological methods, producing a body of data, presenting data at national meetings, writing and publishing papers, preparing grant proposals, and attending local and national workshops on launching and maintaining successful careers in biological psychiatry.

We seek applications from ethnically diverse scientists who have strong academic credentials and US citizenship or permanent residence. NIH rules for T32 trainees state, "The individual to be trained must be a citizen or a noncitizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence by the time of award. Individuals who have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence must have a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-551) or other legal verification of such status."

Potential applicants are welcome to contact any of the core faculty members. An application form is attached. Additional information can be found by visiting our website (http://psych.ucsf.edu/t32/neuro_scz).