Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute

Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute

We seek an accomplished scientist or physician-scientist to join Rutgers Health and Rutgers Brain Health Institute as Director of the new Neurotechnology Innovation Center within BHI. The selected candidate will have a tenure home in the Department of Neurosurgery. The goal of NTICe is to develop a world-class research center that serves as a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations among basic and translational scientists, clinicians, engineers and industry partners to propel discovery of innovative, groundbreaking neurotechnology that can be brought from the bench to the bedside to treat debilitating neurological and psychiatric diseases.

The ideal candidate will be a leader in Translational Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation or Biomedical Engineering with a broad interdisciplinary interest in neurotechnology. The director is expected to develop and advance the NTICe mission to develop novel technology to fill treatment gaps while also pursuing his/her own research. This will include developing various mechanisms to drive new interdisciplinary collaborations across departments, schools, and institutions. Candidates should have a strong record of scholarly activity and external funding including active awards. Candidates with experience in translational research and demonstrated leadership skills and ability to organize and coordinate collaborations among researchers and clinicians and/or industry from multidisciplinary scientific and medical backgrounds are preferred.

We offer a highly competitive salary and multi-million-dollar resources to develop a world-class Rutgers Neurotechnology Innovation Center and to support the Director's own research activities. Rutgers is a vibrant collaborative environment with campuses at Newark, New Brunswick/ Piscataway and Camden, NJ. Rutgers Health is a new and comprehensive initiative that combines multiple health care organizations and research centers and institutes to advance patient care, research, education and training. With an NIHCTSA and a Comprehensive NCI Cancer Center, Rutgers offers unique opportunities to speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

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