Position Details Position Information RecruitmentPosting Title: Director of Neurotechnology Innovation Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute
Department: Brain Health Institute Salary Details: A range of 150,000 to 350,000
Offer Information The final salary offer may be determined by several factors including but not limited to the candidates qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks if and when appropriate and internal equity to ensure fair compensation relative to the universitys broader compensation structure. We are committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.
Benefits Rutgers provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. The specific benefits vary based on the position and may include:
• Medical • Prescription drug and dental coverage • Paid vacation, holidays, and various leave programs • Competitive retirement benefits, including defined contribution plans and voluntary tax-deferred savings options • Employee and dependent educational benefits when applicable • Life insurance coverage • Employee discount programs
Posting Summary We seek an accomplished scientist or physician-scientist to join Rutgers Health (https://rutgershealth.org) and Rutgers Brain Health Institute (https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu) as Director of the new Neurotechnology Innovation Center (NTICe) within BHI. The selected candidate will have a tenure home in the Department of Neurosurgery (http://sites.rutgers.edu/neurological-surgery).
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 a broad interdisciplinary interest in neurotechnology, including examples such as brain-machine interface, neural prosthetics, gene-based neuromodulation, etc.
The director is expected to develop and advance the NTICe mission to develop novel technology to fill treatment gaps while also pursuing his/her own research. This will include developing various mechanisms to drive new interdisciplinary collaborations across departments, schools, and institutions.
Candidates should have a strong record of scholarly activity and external funding, including active awards. Candidates with experience in translational research and demonstrated leadership skills and ability to organize and coordinate collaborations among researchers and clinicians, and/or industry from multidisciplinary scientific and medical backgrounds are preferred.
We offer a highly competitive salary and multi-million-dollar resources to develop a world-class Rutgers Neurotechnology Innovation Center and to support the Directors own research activities.
Rutgers is 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 Wood 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, neuroprosthetics, 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 Childrens Hospital, and Nokia Bell labs.
The new building also includes incubator space to support the creation of new start-up companies.
NTICe will be administered by BHI, and the Director will be a Core Member of the BHI, the umbrella organization for basic and clinical neuroscience research across Rutgers.
BHI has five research centers of excellence in Alzheimers 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 RWJBarnabas 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 bhibhi.rutgers.edu.
Statement 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.
Posting Details Special Instructions to Applicants Quick Link to Posting: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/239058
Campus: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences RBHS Home Location: Campus Piscataway, NJ Location Details: Pre-employment Screenings All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.
Immunization Requirements Under Policy 100.3.1 Immunization Policy for Covered Individuals, if employment will commence during Flu Season, Rutgers University may require certain prospective employees to provide proof that they are vaccinated against Seasonal Influenza for the current Flu Season, unless the University has granted the individual a medical or religious exemption.
Additional infection control and safety policies may apply. Prospective employees should speak with their hiring manager to determine which policies apply to the role or position for which they are applying.
Failure to provide proof of vaccination for any required vaccines or obtain a medical or religious exemption from the University will result in rescission of a candidates offer of employment or disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement It is university policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information, including the refusal to submit to genetic testing, or any other category protected by law.
As an institution, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply. For additional information, please see the Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement
Posting Specific Questions Required fields are indicated with an asterisk.
Applicant Documents Required Documents Cover Letter Letter of Application Curriculum Vitae List of Professional References Contact Info Research Statement Optional Documents Diversity Statement