Director of Translational Human Neuroscience

The O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern, in partnership with the Departments of Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Rehabilitation, and Biomedical Engineering Sciences, seeks a Director of Translational Human Neuroscience. The O’Donnell Brain Institute is a cross-disciplinary organization that helps support and coordinate basic and translational research efforts across clinical and basic science departments connected to the brain.

Understanding how circuits dysfunction in disease and can be therapeutically modulated is a top priority for the Institute. The Institute is advancing this goal by supporting circuit neuroscience research in human subjects and in animal models. In addition to performing cutting edge human neuroscience research, the Director of Translational Human Neuroscience will help build, lead, and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of investigators focused on using multi-modal approaches to understand human brain function.

Areas of interest include uncovering neurophysiological mechanisms of diseases and neuromodulatory strategies and advancing the development of novel interventions. The Director of Translational Human Neuroscience will help to shape and enhance efforts in human neuroscience, including promoting research synergies, incubating junior faculty, coordinating internal funding efforts for trainees and junior faculty, and identifying potential program-based funding mechanisms including an NIH-funded training program in human neuroscience.

The candidate will be at the associate or full professor rank, with a demonstrated track record of extramural funding and impactful discovery in human neuroscience, with a preferred emphasis on neuromodulatory approaches to understand human brain function and disease and the development of novel therapeutics. The individual should have diverse interests across this broad domain, bridging systems and diseases. The individual should have demonstrated leadership, through efforts such as a history of team science, multidisciplinary funding, or other mechanisms.

Candidate will have a achieved a PhD or MD degree with a demonstrated track record of extramural funding and impactful discovery in human neuroscience, with a preferred emphasis on neuromodulatory approaches to understand human brain function and disease and the development of novel therapeutics. The individual should have diverse interests across this broad domain, bridging systems and diseases. The individual should have demonstrated leadership, through efforts such as a history of team science, multidisciplinary funding, or other mechanisms.

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