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The Research Assistant will support UTHealth Houston's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The role focuses on brain imaging, neural modulation, and biomarker research for finding the cause and better treatment for people with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric conditions. You will learn and master some of the most cutting-edge clinical, human brain science, and behavioral research tools and methods in psychology and psychiatry. 

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:  

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees  
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year) 
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue! 
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service) 
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan! 

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as... 

• Free financial and legal counseling 
• Free mental health counseling services 
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs 
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc. 
• Resources for child and elder care 
• Plus many more! 

Position Summary:

Under close direction of senior research staff, conducts activities to support research projects.

Position Key Accountabilities:

1. Under close supervision, conducts research activities according to research protocol. Research activities may include some or all of the following: patient recruiting and screening, traditional laboratory experiments and activities, informatics, field interviewer recruiting, screening and training and/or animal laboratories. 
2. May maintain clean laboratory equipment and/or work area to ensure a safe and efficient work environment.
3. Collects, evaluates, and interprets research data to provide needed information to principal investigators and other researchers. Updates notebooks, records, and databases as needed.
4. Stays abreast of new and updated protocols for research department.
5. Orders laboratory and/or other supplies as directed by senior research staff.
6. As needed, may coordinate the work of laboratory technicians and assistants to ensure efficient, timely and high quality results.
7. Complies with all governmental and University policies, rules, regulations, and codes.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.

Are you an Early Career Researcher keen to advance in the field of Psychology? University of Sussex offers the opportunity for a new ECR to join our community, or further develop their existing role here. We are offering support to talented researchers writing applications for major fellowships, who wish to establish a longer-term career at University of Sussex. We would offer mentorship to develop your bid and, if you are successful, an attractive start-up package including additional Sussex-funding for a PhD studentship, and a transparent tenure-track process to secure a permanent position at the end of the fellowship. Your successful bid would be for an externally-funded fellowship that lasts for at least 5 years and should ideally cover all of your fellowship salary. Your deadline to contact us is 15th May 2025 for applicants wishing to apply for an ERC Starting Grant (whose submission date is October 2025; start date 2026). 

Eligibility is open to researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years post-PhD experience (adjusted for career breaks and part-time status). Applicants should have a highly promising scientific track record and an excellent research proposal. The School is dedicated to diversity and inclusivity, having an Athena SWAN Silver Award, a Race Equity Action Plan, and an active Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion group. We especially encourage applications from those returning from career breaks, and from black and minority ethnic candidates, and women, trans, and non-binary candidates, who are under-represented in the School of Psychology.

Any candidate who successfully wins the externally-funded research Fellowship would be accorded Research Fellow status as a Principal Investigator within the School Psychology, and would be integrated within one (or more) of our six Subject Groups (Biological/ Clinical/ Cognitive/ Developmental/ Social Psychology, or Research Methods). The successful candidate will also benefit from access to shared research facilities, infrastructure, and resources including technical staff. Specialist facilities include the Sussex Child Research Hub, Behavioural Neuroscience labs, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (with 3T MRI), Brain and Body laboratory; Human Psychophysiology and Psychoacoustic laboratories; and Vision laboratories. In addition, the School of Psychology hosts a number of Research Centres where we have significant critical mass: Sussex Neuroscience, Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC), Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness, Centre for Research on Cultural and Societal Diversity, Sussex Centre for Mental Health Research, Centre for Research Reform and Open Science, and the Sussex Centre for Sensory and Perceptual Diversity.

Entra in contatto con persone di tutto il mondo che condividono i tuoi valori e la tua passione per la restituzione. Questo ruolo offre l'opportunità di acquisire esperienza pratica contribuendo al contempo alla nostra missione.

Functions as a Drug Abuse Treatment Specialist (DATS) within a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) federal correctional facility.

Provides direct services, individual therapy and/or group counseling, drug education, residential and/or non-residential treatment services which focuses on the rational behavioral therapy model of drug abuse treatment and criminality.

Responsible for the education of prison staff about drug abuse, drug abuse treatment and the local prison program.

Administers eligibility and psycho-social assessments as the basis for individual treatment planning.

Attends meetings with supervisors, other drug treatment DATSs, the unit team, etc., to share information, knowledge, ideas, and recommendations for the drug abuse treatment participant.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Titolo del progetto: Ruolo sesso-dipendente dei recettori D3 della dopamina nella vulnerabilità individuale allo sviluppo di comportamenti compulsivi di ricerca e assunzione di droghe: indagini precliniche con un nuovo antagonista altamente selettivo

Supervisore: Professor David Belin

Dipartimento/Istituto: Fisiologia, Sviluppo e Neuroscienze (PDN)

Partner industriale: Shionogi

Dettagli del progetto:

L'epidemia di oppioidi che ha causato la morte di oltre mezzo milione di persone negli Stati Uniti nell'ultimo decennio sta raggiungendo il Regno Unito. Non ci sono ancora trattamenti efficaci per la dipendenza da oppiacei e altre droghe come la cocaina e l'alcol, limitando così la nostra capacità di aiutare coloro che soffrono di questo disturbo psichiatrico debilitante, in parte a causa della nostra mancanza di comprensione dei meccanismi cellulari che mediano la transizione dalla ricerca controllata a quella compulsiva di farmaci e l'assunzione di comportamenti. il segno distintivo del disturbo da uso di sostanze. Tra i meccanismi candidati, quelli a valle del recettore della dopamina D3, la cui espressione è profondamente esacerbata dall'esposizione a droghe che creano dipendenza, si sono a lungo distinti. Tuttavia, il ruolo di questo recettore nel comportamento compulsivo di ricerca di droghe non è mai stato determinato a causa della mancanza di procedure appropriate nelle specie non umane. Sfruttando un nuovo modello animale di abitudini compulsive alla ricerca di eroina sviluppato dal laboratorio di Belin, è stata recentemente lanciata una nuova partnership multimilionaria con Shionogi per testare, tra l'altro, il potenziale terapeutico e la firma neurale associata di un nuovo recettore D3 della dopamina altamente selettivo sulle abitudini di ricerca della droga, sulla ricerca compulsiva di droghe e sull'escalation dell'autosomministrazione di farmaci nei ratti maschi e femmine. Questo programma di ricerca all'interfaccia tra neuroscienze comportamentali, neurofarmacologia e biologia molecolare fornirà un'opportunità unica per uno studente di dottorato di acquisire una profonda conoscenza delle basi psicologiche e neurali dei disturbi da uso di sostanze, acquisendo anche una vasta gamma di competenze sperimentali in un ambiente molto favorevole.

Il partner industriale è uno dei pochi laboratori di Big Pharma che investe nella ricerca di base nel campo delle neuroscienze e persegue lo sviluppo di nuovi trattamenti per i disturbi del sistema nervoso centrale. È da tempo interessata ad espandere la propria strategia di scoperta di farmaci alla tossicodipendenza. Shionogi è diventato un partner industriale primario del panorama di Cambridge ed è molto attivo nella sua collaborazione con la Cambridge Neuroscience Community. Negli ultimi cinque anni, Shionogi ha sostenuto una nuova linea di ricerca sul ruolo dei recettori mu oppiacei periferici negli effetti comportamentali degli oppiacei nel contesto di una borsa di studio BBSRC-ICase con Belin che si è dimostrata molto efficace, testimoniando così l'impegno di Shionogi a sostenere la ricerca nel campo dei disturbi da uso di sostanze.

I candidati dovranno avere una vasta esperienza con le procedure di autosomministrazione endovenosa cronica nei ratti.

Ulteriori informazioni sul programma di dottorato DTP di Cambridge Bioscience sono disponibili a questo link: https://bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/bbsrc-dtp-programme/icase-studentships. Tutti i dettagli sui requisiti di ammissione all'Università e sulle borse di studio sono specificati al seguente link: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates with experience in the area of substance use disorders and addictions, motivated behavior, or the consequences of drug experience on brain function. The Department of Neurobiology (link) is an established and well-funded department with over a quarter century of fundamental neuroscience discoveries. Faculty are housed in custom-designed laboratories and offices in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and nearby Civitan International Research Center. The department has strengths in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function, synaptic communication and plasticity, and animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, with technical approaches spanning molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels of analysis. The Department of Neurobiology provides competitive start-up packages, modern laboratory space, excellent core facilities, a collaborative research environment, and world-class training programs. UAB is strongly committed to neuroscience research, and the department is expanding rapidly under new leadership.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines in Alabama, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $12.1 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with nearly 28,000 employees, and ranks in the top 10 among public universities for NIH funding, with total research expenditures exceeding $715 million in 2022. With nearly 1,700 faculty, 1,200 medical and graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, UAB pursues the frontiers of education, research, and health care and strives to be one of the most dynamic and productive universities of the 21st century. Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. It is a rich cultural center and progressive community with low cost of living, moderate weather, and ample outdoor activities.

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest neuroscience environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) has more than 450 neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students & trainees representing 32 UAB departments across 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB. In addition, UAB is home to several other neuroscience-related centers, including the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention (CAPPI), Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, which supports translational research and promotes junior investigators.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. and/or M.D in a related field and a strong record of research accomplishments. Faculty members are expected to establish or continue active independent research programs and to participate in education of professional, graduate, and undergraduate students. To ensure priority consideration, applications should be submitted by September 15, 2025, but applications will be considered until positions are filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of references, and brief summary of current and proposed research activities as a single PDF file.