Vacancy ID: PDS004733

Position Summary/Description:
The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina ( UNC - CIDD ) is seeking fellows for our Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( NICHD ) and co-directed by Ben Philpot and Mark Shen, this program emphasizes research training in both the biological basis and clinical manifestations of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Continuously funded since 2001 (T32HD040127), it was one of the first programs in the U.S. to bring together multi-disciplinary postdocs to accelerate translational research on NDDs. The UNC - CIDD T32 program has trained over 65 postdoctoral fellows to date, many of whom have subsequently obtained NIH K-awards, Simons Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome, or other prestigious junior faculty awards, and started their independent labs at R1 universities.

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