Post-Doctoral Fellow-MPRC
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- University of Maryland Baltimore
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Job Details
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) have an open fellowship position with scientific focus on the application of Big Data multimodal imaging and/or genetics techniques to study the diagnosis, deficit patterns, etiology of and treatment for major neuropsychiatric disorder disorders. MPRC is a leading research institution on schizophrenia and offers many opportunities to participate in large national and international studies on neuropsychiatric disorders with leading scientists in the field. Applicants with an interest in big data/machine learning methods in large-scale studies, of connectomics, diffusion, functional or spectroscopy imaging are encouraged. This position will be mentored by Drs. Elliot Hong and Peter Kochunov. General educational activities will include internal courses on statistics, data analysis, biological psychiatry, psychopathology, neuroimaging, genetics, journal clubs, meetings with invited outside senior researchers, grant writing workshops, and individualized career development.Applicants are expected to hold an advance degree (PhD, MD, or MD/PhD) in computer science, biomedical engineering, psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, medical physics, computational biology or related fields. This position is open to US and international scholars. Applicants should send a brief statement of research interest and a CV to Dr. Kochunov at pkochunov@som.umaryland.edu, or Dr. Hong at ehong@som.umaryland.edu. Every applicant must apply using the University of Maryland on-line system.
Qualifications
Advanced degree PhD, MD or MD/PhD degree in computer science, biomedical engineering, psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, medical physics, computational biology.
Job: Postdoctoral Fellows
Organization: School of Medicine - Clinical Departments
Job Posting: Apr 13, 2021
Organization
Welcome to the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland, founded in 1807 along a ridge in what was then called Baltimore Town. Today, this 61-acre research and technology complex encompasses 65 buildings in West Baltimore near the Inner Harbor. 
The University is Maryland's only public academic health, human services, and law center. Seven professional and graduate schools train the majority of the state's physicians, nurses, dentists, lawyers, social workers, and pharmacists.
Under the leadership of President Jay A. Perman, MD, the University is a leading partner in the redevelopment of the west side of Baltimore. The University of Maryland BioPark, which opened in October 2005, promotes collaborative research opportunities and bioscience innovation.
Sponsored research totaled $567.1 million in Fiscal Year 2010. With 6,349 students and 6,717 faculty members and staff, the University is an economic engine that returns more than $15 in economic activity for every $1 of state general funds appropriation. The University community gives more than 2 million hours a year in service to the public.
Mission
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the State¹s public health, law and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service. As a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, and using state-of-the-art technological support, we educate leaders in health care delivery, biomedical science, global health, social work and the law. We emphasize interdisciplinary education and research in an atmosphere that explicitly values civility, diversity, collaboration, teamwork and accountability. By conducting internationally recognized research to cure disease and to improve the health, social functioning and just treatment of the people we serve, we foster economic development in the City, State, and nation. We are committed to ensuring that the knowledge we generate provides maximum benefit to society and directly enhances our various communities.
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