Faculty Recruitment to Tufts Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：塔夫茨大学医学院（TUSM）的神经科学最近被确定为战略规划过程的一部分，通过雇用新的主席和新的教师来扩展。该应用程序的PI已被塔夫茨大学聘为神经科学系主任，并已另外招聘了四名员工。这个申请的目的是在美国国立卫生研究院和塔夫茨大学之间建立伙伴关系，这样我们就可以扩大这个项目，聘请更多的终身助理教授。我们申请资金聘请两名终身助理教授，并与TUSM的资金一起为这名新教师提供设置包。这一机构承诺包括最近为这些新员工翻新新的实验室空间（2009年5月完成），140万美元的资金用于总设置包，以及保证在此赠款完成后的两年内为新员工提供硬工资支持。TUSM的神经科学专注于三个专业，以增强我们的突触组：突触传递本身的研究，以及突触背景下神经系统疾病和神经元-胶质相互作用的研究。这些领域相互支持，部分重叠，为我们的发展提供重点。此外，这种专业的融合为我们提供了自己的利基市场，这样我们就可以在这些领域中脱颖而出，成为公认的领导者。在这个项目中，我们有三个目标：目标1：招募最优秀的候选人来加强塔夫茨大学突触神经生物学的研究。目标2：指导、提升和促进新聘教师的职业生涯。目标3：通过核心研究资助扩大塔夫茨大学的合作研究。通过实现这些目标，我们的目标是开发一个世界级的项目，在突触神经生物学方面进行最先进的研究，并确定健康和疾病中大脑和行为控制的潜在机制。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Neurosciences at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) have recently been identified, as part of a Strategic planning process, for expansion by hiring a new chair and new faculty. The PI of this application has been recruited to Tufts as the Chair of the Neuroscience Department and has already made four additional hires. The purpose of this application is to form a partnership between the NIH and Tufts so that we can expand this program to hire additional tenure-track assistant professors. We request funds to hire two tenure-track assistant professors, and together with funds from TUSM provide the setup packages for this new faculty. This institutional commitment includes the recent renovation of new laboratory space for these recruits (completed in May 2009), $1.4 million of funds towards the total setup package, as well as a guarantee of hard salary support for the recruits for the two year period beyond the completion of this grant. The Neurosciences at TUSM is focusing on three specialties to enhance our Synapse Group: the study of synaptic transmission per se, as well as studies of disorders of the nervous system and neuron-glial interactions within the context of the synapse. Each of these areas is mutually supportive and partially overlapping providing focus to our development. Moreover, this blend of specialties provides us with our own niche so that as we excel we can be recognized as leaders in these areas. In this project we have three objectives: Objective 1: Recruit the best candidates to enhance the study of synapse neurobiology at Tufts. Objective 2: IV Ientor, enhance and promote the careers of newly recruited faculty. Objective 3: Augment collaborative studies at Tufts through Core Research Grants. By achieving these objectives our goal is to develop a world-class program that is performing state-of-the-art studies in synapse neurobiology and is identifying the mechanisms underlying the control of brain and behavior in health and disease.