Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers

Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers

We seek an accomplished scientist or physician-scientist eligible for the rank of tenured Associate or Full Professor to join the Department of Neurosurgery under new leadership (https://sites.rutgers.edu/neurological-surgery/ ) at Rutgers Health (https://rutgershealth.org/ ) and Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI; https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/ ) as Director of the new Neurotechnology Innovation Center (NTICe) at Rutgers Brain Health Institute.   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 an established track record of federally funded research and academic productivity. We seek candidates with a broad interdisciplinary interest in neurotechnology (examples include candidates with expertise in brain-machine interface, neural prosthetics, gene-based neuromodulation etc.). The candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to organize and coordinate efforts among researchers from multidisciplinary scientific and medical backgrounds and possess leadership skills to create an inclusive and culturally diverse collaborative milieu. Experience with translating research into early-stage clinical trials and/or start-ups will be viewed favorably. Applicants must hold a Ph.D., M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. We offer considerable resources to develop and advance NTICe and to support the Director’s own research. The Director will build on existing strengths at Rutgers in Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, Engineering, Data Science, Medical Device Development, Biotechnology, Technology Transfer, and Industry-Faculty Partnership to spearhead pioneering breakthroughs in neurotechnology and improve existing approaches and devices to treat neurological and psychiatric conditions.

Rutgers offers a vibrant collaborative environment with campuses at Newark, New Brunswick/ Piscataway and Camden, NJ. Rutgers Health comprises nine schools including New Jersey Medical School, Robert W. Johnson Medical School, the School of Health Professions and the School of Public Health. The School of Engineering at Rutgers consists of seven departments including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Industrial & Systems Engineering with faculty expertise in cell & tissue engineering, neuro-prosthetics, neural imaging, signal processing, neural networks & AI, robotics, biomechanics, biocompatible materials, nanotechnology, and neural systems integration. The School of Arts and Sciences houses the Computer Science department which has abundant expertise in computational neural modeling and data analytics. The large research network includes basic scientists, clinician-scientists and clinicians within Rutgers and other institutions in proximity, such as New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and East Orange VA Medical Center, as well as collaborations with Princeton University. 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 NIH CTSA and a Comprehensive NCI Cancer Center, Rutgers offers unique opportunities to speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care. The center will be located in the new Rutgers Health Building in New Brunswick in close proximity to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital and Nokia Bell labs.  The new building also includes incubator space to support the creation of new start-up companies. The Director will be a Core Member of the Brain Health Institute, the umbrella organization for basic and clinical neuroscience research across Rutgers. The Brain Health Institute has five research centers of excellence in Alzheimer’s Disease, Autism, Addiction, Advanced Human Brain Imaging and Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, and contains >300 principal investigators and >900 trainees. Outstanding core facilities will support this position, including a new research-dedicated 3T MRI scanner and a human behavioral testing core in collaboration with Princeton University. Several research hospitals affiliated with RWJ/Barnabas Healthcare, and the University Hospital at Newark provide additional collaborative settings and partnerships to promote cutting-edge biomedical and clinical research.      

Rutgers values a culturally diverse faculty; we strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented in medicine candidates. Applicants should submit a CV, statement of research accomplishments, and names of three to five references to Stella Elkabes, Ph.D., Chair of the search committee, at bhi@bhi.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, military service or any other category protected by law.  As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment.