Post-Doc Research Associate

Posting Information

Posting Details

Department Neurology - 411801

Posting Open Date 05/16/2025

Final date to receive applications

Open Until Filled Yes

Position Type Postdoctoral Scholar

Position Title Post-Doc Research Associate

Vacancy PDS
004534

Full-time/Part-time Full-Time Temporary

Hours per week 40

FTE 1

Work Location Chapel Hill, NC

Position Location North Carolina, US

Qualifications

Hiring Range Dependent on Qualifications

Proposed Start Date 07/01/2025

Estimated Duration of Appointment 12 Months

Position Information

Be a Tar Heel!

A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top public universities and is among is the top ten research universities in the nation for federal research expenditures as well as for federally funded social and behavioral sciences research and development.

Here at Carolina, our highly skilled postdocs play a vital role in our research enterprise and towards our overall commitment to research excellence. Across many disciplines, postdocs contribute to the intellectual vitality of the University. They provide innovative ideas and perspectives, foster a stimulating research environment and advance knowledge within their fields. Postdocs are crucial members of our scientific research workforce, contributors to our research outputs and an important reason why Carolina is one of the leading public research institutions in the country.

UNC
-Chapel Hill offers postdocs comprehensive medical and vision coverage , paid leave, and benefits and services that support professional development and a healthy work/life balance. Chapel Hill regularly ranks as one of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, a reputation guided by the diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.

Primary Purpose Of Organizational Unit

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care:
We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education:

We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research:
We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary

The Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics Division ( UNC Neurogenetics) in the Department of Neurology at the UNC
-CH School of Medicine invites applications for a Clinical Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship. This is a high impact postdoctoral position for aspiring clinician-scientists. It is a full-time, two-year position with a start date of July 1, 2025.

UNC Neurogenetics is a collaborative research hub, and provides outstanding evidence-based, multidisciplinary care for individuals of all ages at risk for or living with neurogenetic disorders. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in research activities that reflect current projects within UNC Neurogenetics, including basic science and quality improvement/assurance projects based on our clinical programming. Examples including the Genetic Determinants of Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders ( GDNDD ) study.

Fellows have the advantage of joining a program with a backlog of publishable work, and are expected to have the skill set to analyze genetic and non-genetic data from existing studies, generate high quality manuscripts and presentations, and actively manage the manuscript submission process. In addition to engaging with established research programs, research duties include mining clinical and research study databases for: immediately publishable findings;

immediately actionable investigator-initiated projects including ones that can be done solely within UNC Neurogenetics, with UNC
-CH bench lab and clinical research collaborators, and/or with external collaborators; hypothesis generation for large scale new projects. Immediately actionable investigator-initiated projects may include projects in which the fellow can serve as a mentored PI.

UNC Neurogenetics research operates within the UNC
-CH School of Medicine, and ties into clinical care across One UNC Health i.e. across North Carolina. Our Neurology-based faculty have decades of clinical research and clinical care…