Overview
This combined fellowship is an individualized fellowship program aimed at M.D.s or M.D./Ph.D.s interested in basic research applicable to neurological diseases. The program is intended for clinicians with basic laboratory experience who wish to gain further training in laboratory-based research while improving clinical skills or for clinicians interested in emerging disciplines in neurological clinical research, such as neuroimaging. The successful candidate will spend the majority of time in basic research with a mentor, but will spend one day each week in clinical activities, such as working in a specialty clinic with a clinical supervisor and attending rounds and clinical conferences. Interested applicants should identify potential mentors from the NINDS faculty list and send an outline of their career goals, along with a curriculum vita, addressed to the NINDS Clinical Director at NINDSClinicalDirector2@mail.nih.gov. Applications will be evaluated for programmatic and scientific appropriateness by the Scientific and Clinical Directors. For more information on our basic sciences laboratories, please visit our website Neuroscience@NIH and click on the Faculty or Research Facility tabs.
Laboratories in the Basic Neurosciences Program Include:
- Advanced MRI Section, Josef Duyn, Ph.D.
- Axon Guidance and Neural ConnectivitySection, Edward Giniger, Ph.D.
- Basin Neurosciences Program, Stadtman Investigator, Meng Meng Fu, Ph.D.
- Cell Biology and BiophysicsSection, Antonina Roll-Mecak, Ph.D.
- Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology Section, Susan Wray, Ph.D.
- Cellular and Systems Neurobiology Section, Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D.
- Cellular Neurophysiology Section, Zayd Khaliq, Ph.D.
- Circuits, Synapses and Molecular Signaling Section, Lorna W. Role, Ph.D.
- Computational Structural Biology Section, Lucy Forrest, Ph.D.
- Developmental Neurobiology Section, Michael O’Donovan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Integrative Neuroscience Section, Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
- Functional and Molecular Metabolism Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, Alan Koretsky, Ph.D.
- Basic Neurosciences Program, Eugene Major, Ph.D.
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Thomas S. Reese, M.D.
- Membrane Transport Biophysics Section, Joseph Mindell, M.D., Ph.D.
- Molecular Neuropharmacology Section, David Sibley, Ph.D.
- Molecular Neurophysiology Section, Miquel Holmgren, Ph.D.
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, Kenton Swartz, Ph.D.
- Protein/Peptide Sequencing Facility, Yan Lo, Ph.D.
- Receptor Biology Section, Katherine Roche, Ph.D.
- Spatial Navigation and Memory Unit, Yi Gu, Ph.D.
- Spinal Circuits and Plasticity Unit, Ariel Levine, M.D., Ph.D.
- Synapse and Neural CircuitSection, Wei Lu, Ph.D.
- Synaptic Function Section, Zu-Hang Sheng, Ph.D.
- Synaptic Physiology Section, Jeffrey Diamond, Ph.D.
- Synaptic Transmission Section, Ling-Gang Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Section, Dorian McGavern, Ph.D.
- Viral Production Core Facility, Raymond L. Fields
Please apply via the NIH GME Application website.