Postdoctoral or Research Scientist

This is a full-time research job position. Applicants should possess a PhD, MD, or equivalent degree from the field of neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, or other related basic medical science. Candidates are expected to have knowledge, experience, and skill in one or more of the following studies: electrophysiology (patch-clamp recording), rodent drug self-administration (or other behavioral studies), or biochemistry/molecular biology/immunohistochemistry (IHC).

Research will focus on assessing the neuropathophysiolog induced by cocaine/methamphetamine abuse, and/or associated with neurodegenerative diseases (i.e., Alzheimer’s disease, AD, and neuroHIV), with or without aging. Transgenic mouse or rat models of AD, as well as a non-infectious rat model of neuroHIV (that express viral proteins, but not HIV-1), will be used in combination of drug abuse in these studies.