Employment Opportunities

Assistant Professor - Clinical Neuroscientist

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor in the Medical Center Line. This is a clinical, research, and teaching position that will be based at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Deputy Director

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), at the National Institutes of Health is seeking exceptional candidates for the position of Deputy Director. As second-in-command at NIDA, the Deputy Director is a principal member of the Institute’s leadership team.
Sponsor(s): National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Staff Clinician Position

A Staff Clinician position is open within the Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies NIAAA/NIDA, The main goal is to conduct clinical research on the neuropsychopharmacology of alcohol and drug addiction at the NIH Bethesda campus and the NIDA IRP at the Bayview campus in Baltimore, Maryland which are highly interactive translational environment.
Sponsor(s): NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM/NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (NIAAA/NIDA)

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Neuroscience

In a strategic effort to enhance existing research in drug abuse/addiction, the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience (formerly VCAPP) at Washington State University on the Pullman campus seeks to fill two (2) full-time, tenure-track faculty positions in neuroscience at the rank of Assistant/Associate/Full Professor to begin July 2013.
Sponsor(s): Washington State University

Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago is looking to fill a full-time Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is part of is one of the largest Psychiatry departments in the Midwest, with 125 faculty, an excellent General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and several fellowships, including a nationally known Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency.
Sponsor(s): University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Director for the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR)

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks an outstanding researcher and leader to fill the position of Director for the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) and to continue its history of excellence in research, clinical work, and community linkages.
Sponsor(s): University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Campbell Family Chair in Clinical Neuroscience

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto invites nominations and applications for the Campbell Family Chair in Clinical Neuroscience. This position is a joint University of Toronto and CAMH hospital chair within CAMH’s Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute.
Sponsor(s): University of Toronto

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Addiction and Aging

The intramural research programs of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Aging (NIA), research components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), together with The Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, are sponsoring a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the neuroscience of aging and addiction.
Sponsor(s): NIDA

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Substance Abuse

The Department of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center is recruiting a psychiatrist or psychologist for a faculty position in its growing substance abuse division. The successful candidate will have clinical expertise in substance/alcohol abuse and the ability to teach and mentor, as well as an interest in collaborating with investigators in associated areas including neuropsychopharmacology, neurocognition and HIV/AIDS.
Sponsor(s): Rush University Medical Center

Board Certified/Board Eligible Psychiatrist

The Department of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Psychiatrist to anchor a program in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Sponsor(s): Rush University Medical Center

Scientific Director

The Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) seeks to identify an outstanding Scientific Director to lead its research program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Scientific Director leads a basic and clinical research program directed toward developing a greater understanding of the biological basis for psychiatric disorders.
Sponsor(s): Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Associate or Full Professor

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences seeks a child psychiatrist to join the faculty as an Associate Professor or Full Professor in the Medical Center Line (MCL) or University Tenure Line (UTL). This faculty member will serve as Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and will hold substantial leadership, educational, and administrative responsibilities, serving as a key member of the Department’s integrated leadership team.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Schizophrenia Research

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position in the Visual Psychophysiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Candidates should have a PhD or M.D. in psychopathology, vision/cognition, or psychiatry, and should be very interested in combining basic and clinical research.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Addiction and Aging

The intramural research programs of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Aging (NIA), research components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), together with The Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, are sponsoring a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the neuroscience of aging and addiction.
Sponsor(s): John Hopkins

Assistant Professor - Clinical Neuroscientist

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor in the Medical Center Line. This is a clinical, research, and teaching position that will be based at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Senior-Level Medical Officer

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking a senior-level medical officer with expertise in medications development and the conduct of clinical trials who will bring significant experience to operate in an intellectually challenging Federal biomedical research institution engaged in a program to develop novel pharmacotherapies to treat drug addictions.
Sponsor(s): NIDA

Faculty Position – Behavioral Neuroscience

The Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 2013.
Sponsor(s): University of North Carolina

Postdoctoral Position

Postdoctoral position available in the Mandyam Laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute to participate in federally-funded research program. Research emphasis is on analysis of neuroplastic mechanisms underlying adaptations in reward and stress pathways associated with animal models of alcohol dependence and excessive drinking (relapse to ethanol seeking).
Sponsor(s): Scripps Research Institute

Faculty Position in Behavioral Neuroscience

The Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 2013. The successful candidate will have a research specialty and expertise in gene-environment interactions related to addictions, broadly defined.
Sponsor(s): University of North Carolina

Paul Janssen Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience

The Paul Janssen Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding young physician-investigator (M.D. or Ph.D. degree) to conduct novel translational research in the field of neuroscience as it relates to psychiatric disease and medicine.

Staglin Family Chair in Psychology

The Department of Psychology at UCLA: seeks nominations and applications for a full-time tenured position at the level of Professor, in Clinical Psychology, to fill an endowed chair, the Staglin Family Chair in Psychology.
Sponsor(s): University of California, Los Angeles

Post-Doctoral Trainee for Clinical Intervention Research

Madhukar Trivedi, M.D., Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program and Clinic within the Department of Psychiatry at the UT Southwestern Medical School seeks postdoctoral fellows to participate in his Mood Disorders Clinical Intervention Training (MDCIT) program.
Sponsor(s): UT Southwestern Medical School

Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral Pharmacology

A postdoctoral position is open immediately (Summer/Fall 2012) on an NIH-funded research project concerning the behavioral pharmacology of lithium and other mood stabilizers used to treat bipolar disorder, depression, and suicidal behaviors.
Sponsor(s): University of Maryland School of Medicine

Staff Clinician

A position as Staff Clinician is open within a newly formed Section of the Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies (LCTS), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health.
Sponsor(s): National Institute of Health (NIH)

Postdoctoral Position

The Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies (LCTS) at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for post-doctoral fellow(s) (MD and/or PhD) to conduct research in the laboratory located within the Mark O Hatfield Clinical Research Center on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
Sponsor(s): National Institute of Health (NIH)

Medical Officer Positions

Come join the nation’s premier medical research agency, where we are making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives! The National Institutes of Health has a number of Medical Officer vacancies in both the intramural and extramural programs.
Sponsor(s): Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Postdoctoral Associate Position in Translational Neuroimaging

Applications are invited for an NIH-funded postdoctoral position in the lab of Dr. Pearl Chiu (http://people.vtc.vt.edu/~chiup/) at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (http://research.vtc.vt.edu/).
Sponsor(s): Virginia Tech Carilion

Geriatric Researcher

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco invites applications for a Geriatric Researcher at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. The position will be filled at an academic series and rank commensurate with experience, and could begin on July 1, 2012 or thereafter.
Sponsor(s): University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience

The Rhode Island Hospital Department of Psychiatry; the Office of VP Research, Lifespan Hospitals; the Brown University Institute for Brain Science; and the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute are seeking candidates for a Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience.
Sponsor(s): Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital

Psychotic Disorders Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior of the Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU): is seeking a qualified psychologist for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in Psychotic Disorders.
Sponsor(s): Georgia Health Sciences University

Clinical Care, Teaching, and Research in the Field of Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in the Medical Center Line or the University Tenure Line to conduct clinical care, teaching, and research in the field of psychiatry.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Psychosomatic Medicine Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in the Medical Center Line or the University Tenure Line to conduct clinical care, teaching, and research in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Training Program in Translational Neuroscience of Drug Abuse

The UCLA TNDA Program is funded by a NIDA T32 training grant and provides fellows with the integrative knowledge base needed to plan, conduct and obtain independent funding for bidirectional translational studies of drug abuse.
Sponsor(s): UCLA

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Brain Imaging

Postdoctoral fellow position is available immediately in the UCLA Semel Institute to participate in an exciting, active research program using multi-modal brain imaging in studies of emotion regulation and self-control.
Sponsor(s): UCLA Semel Institute

Geriatric Psychiatrist Position

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time faculty member in the Clinician Educator Line, at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor, to conduct clinical care and teaching in geriatric psychiatry.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Training in the Field of Reproductive Mood Disorders

The Center for Women’s Mood Disorders within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts the only postdoctoral training fellowship program in the field of Reproductive Mood Disorders funded by the NIH.
Sponsor(s): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in NIMH-funded Schizophrenia Research

The Schizophrenia Research Fellowship at the Columbia University Medical Center is currently accepting applications.
Sponsor(s): Columbia University

Postdoctoral Position

Postdoctoral position to work on the Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia (COGS) and Translational Research Programs.
Sponsor(s): UC San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The NIMH-funded T32 Training Grant (Neurobiological mechanisms underlying the symptoms and course of schizophrenia) at the University of California in San Francisco is now accepting applications for post-doctoral fellowships from recent PhDs, MDs, and MD/PhDs.
Sponsor(s): University of California: San Francisco

Fellowships in Alcohol Addiction Research, MD's or Ph.D.'s

The Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies (LCTS) at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for post-doctoral fellows (MD and/or PhD) to conduct research in the laboratory located within the Mark O Hatfield Clinical Research Center on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
Sponsor(s): National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Postdoctoral Training Opportunity

The UCLA Semel Institute in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is offering an intensive two-year educational and training experience to prepare individuals for careers in translational neurosciences in either academia or industry.
Sponsor(s): University of California, Los Angeles

Clinical / Translational Research Program in Depression

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System is recruiting to a named, endowed tenure-track professorship at the associate professor rank or above to lead a clinical/translational research program in depression within the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and Comprehensive Depression Center.
Sponsor(s): University of Michigan

Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellowship

The Dartmouth Medical School Department of Psychiatry Mood Disorders Service is seeking candidates for a Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Fellowship in Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders and Advanced Therapeutics.
Sponsor(s): Dartmouth Medical School

Postdoctoral Position in Pre-Clinical and Clinical Brain Imaging in Psychiatry

The Psychiatry Imaging Program at Yale invites applications for postdoctoral positions in neuroreceptor imaging (PET) of addiction and other psychiatric disorders in human subjects and in animal models.
Sponsor(s): Yale University School of Medicine

Faculty Positions in Psychiatry

Mount Sinai School of Medicine—internationally acclaimed for excellence in scientific research, clinical care, and education—is launching an expansion in Translational Psychiatry Research as part of a new Division of Psychiatric Genomics.
Sponsor(s): Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Position at CALDAR

The UCLA Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR) is a multidisciplinary research unit that focuses on the development and application of rigorous scientific approaches for advancing longitudinal research on drug abuse and its interplay with HIV infection, drug treatment and other service systems.
Sponsor(s): University of California, Los Angeles

Professor and Founding Director of its new Center for Genomic Medicine

The Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine invites applications and nominations for the position of PROFESSOR AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR of its new Center for Genomic Medicine.
Sponsor(s): Medical University of South Carolina

Full-Time Faculty Positions Investigating Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking MD, PhD, or MD/PhD researchers for full-time faculty positions investigating schizophrenia and related psychoses.
Sponsor(s): University of Pittsburgh

Full-Time Faculty Positions Translational Neuroscience Approaches

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking MD, PhD, or MD/PhD researchers for full-time faculty positions focused on applying translational neuroscience approaches to the study of schizophrenia.
Sponsor(s): University of Pittsburgh

Director at Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

The Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences (CMBN) at Rutgers, Newark was created a quarter of a century ago and has grown into a leading research center in Neuroscience, with a solid group of world-class faculty whose research spans systems, behavioral, and computational neuroscience, with methodological approaches as varied as electrophysiology, neuropharmacology, and functional imaging. Moreover, Neuroscience research on the Rutgers Newark campus is growing with hires in social and affective neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, cellular neuroscience in the Department of Biology, and the recent establishment of an interdepartmental Rutgers Brain Imaging Center.
Sponsor(s): Rutgers University-Newark

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking two full-time faculty members at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in the Medical Center Line or the University Tenure Line to conduct clinical care, teaching, and research in the field of psychiatry.
Sponsor(s): Stanford School of Medicine

Faculty Positions in Substance Use and Abuse

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh recognizes substance use and abuse as a major source of primary and co-morbid psychopathology, and is therefore seeking to expand its research efforts in the neurobiology of addiction.
Sponsor(s): University of Pittsburgh

Faculty Position in First Episode Psychosis Program

The First Episode Psychosis Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Department of Psychiatry, is seeking an outstanding clinical investigator who will develop an independent research program conducting cognitive, neuroimaging or neurophysiological studies of individuals experiencing Studies of First Episode Psychosis a first episode of psychosis.
Sponsor(s): University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Faculty Position in Patient-Oriented Autism Research

The Autism Center at the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Psychiatry, is seeking an outstanding faculty candidate who will develop an independent line of cognitive, neuroimaging or neurophysiological studies of autism.
Sponsor(s): University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Training Program in Translational Neuroscience of Drug Abuse

UCLA Training Program in Translational Neuroscience of Drug Abuse (TNDA), Accepting Postdoctoral Applications
Sponsor(s): University of California, Los Angeles

Studies of First Episode Psychosis

A full time postdoctoral position is available in the First Episode Psychosis Program in the Department of Psychiatry.
Sponsor(s): University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Patient-Oriented Autism Research

Two full time postdoctoral positions are available in the Autism Center at UT Southwestern. The center is a new multi-disciplinary clinical research program with a large clinical service and links to several molecular neuroscience and genetics programs.
Sponsor(s): University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Addiction Psychiatrist

The Department of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois is seeking an academic addiction psychiatrist to lead its addiction program. The ideal candidate will evince clinical expertise as well as the ability to develop a clinical-translational research program, and will be involved in training residents, medical students and faculty in this academic medical center. Candidates should have the ability to enhance and interface with clinical and research efforts at Rush University.
Sponsor(s): Rush University Medical Center

Paul Janssen Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience Research

The Paul Janssen Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding young physician-investigator (M.D. or Ph.D. degree) to conduct novel translational research in the field of neuroscience as it relates to psychiatric disease and medicine. The Paul Janssen Fellow will be assigned both a basic scientist mentor and a clinical investigator mentor from the faculty at Columbia University to serve as joint mentors. The fellow will take a basic observation made by the basic science mentor and apply it to the study of disease or treatment with the clinical research mentor.
Sponsor(s): Columbia University

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