POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR
Requisition # 3608
Position Basics
Advertising Ends on: | Extended Until Position is Filled |
Advertising Started on: | Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 |
College: | Carver College of Medicine |
Department: | Pediatrics |
Salary
Salary: | Commensurate |
Position Details
Full/Part Time Status: | Full Time |
Percent Time: | 100% |
Position Description: | University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher who will be responsible for conducting research studying traumatic brain injury and epilepsy in animal models. The position is within the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology. The postdoctoral researcher will be under the supervision of Dr. Alex Bassuk. The focus of the project will be to understand the fundamental neurobiological processes leading to epilepsy and its cognitive and emotional comorbidities. Anatomic, biochemical and molecular techniques will be used to characterize and modulate activity-dependent injury and cell death. Major goals and objectives of the research includes: to study how alterations in cellular and molecular mechanisms mediate neuroinflammation, cell death and hippocampal/cortical circuit dysfunction in epilepsy; investigate the mechanisms through which the intervention compounds affords neuroprotection and seizure reduction in rodent models of epilepsy; identify therapeutic targets within cellular signaling pathways for attenuating or reversing epileptogenesis. |
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Contact Information
Contact: | Jeanie Cromer - [email protected] Cmed-Pediatrics General Hospital 220 Hawkins Drive SW164-10 GH Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: 319-384-7204 |
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