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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Chris Pierce ( Associate Director of BHI for Education and Training. Those interested in joining this dynamic research community are encouraged to contact Dr. With over 250 neuroscience faculty labs engaged in basic, clinical and translational research, and proximity to New York, Princeton and Philadelphia neuroscience communities, Rutgers offers tremendous training and career growth opportunities. The commitment to addiction research continues with development of a new Rutgers Addiction Research Center which includes targeted faculty hiring in this area and a framework for the training of pre- and post-doctoral fellows through seminars, journal clubs, work-in-progress meetings and individualized training plans. Rutgers University has supported cutting-edge research on the causes and consequences of various substance use disorders for decades with a strong record of post-doctoral mentorship and training. Gary Aston-Jones, David Barker, Tammy Chung, Samantha Farris, Perry Halkitis, Daniel Langleben, Morgan James, Teresa Leyro, Zhiping Pang, Chris Pierce, John Pintar, Mark Rossi, Dipak Sarkar, Marc Steinberg, Stanley Weiss and Mark West. Levels of analysis include both basic (drug self-administration coupled with calcium imaging, molecular biology, epigenetics, DREADDs, optogenetics, etc.) and clinical (functional imaging, epidemiology, clinical trials, etc.) lines of investigation. The Rutgers University Translational Addiction Research Program (RU-TARP), a component of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI), has multiple positions available for postdoctoral fellows to study aspects of substance use disorders.

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