Postdoctoral Positions, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, U.S.A. (2016)

The Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) is recruiting postdoctoral research fellows to work at the IND with Director Stanley B. Prusiner.

The IND’s mission is to investigate and create therapies for neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple system atrophy, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, PrP prion diseases. Research opportunities range from the fields of molecular, cell and structural biology and transgenic rodent models to mass spectrometry, synthetic chemistry and computer modeling. A major effort is devoted to an extraordinary drug discovery program.

The IND is housed in the state-of-the-art Sandler Neurosciences Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus, greatly facilitating interactions with many different scientists possessing diverse expertise.

Applicants should hold or be close to completing an M.D. or Ph.D. degree and possess superior writing skills.

Research Fields
Biological sciences
Neurosciences

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu