Director of Translational Human Neuroscience [Req#: 823927, Position#: 125204]

Job description

Description 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 Neuroscienc...