Recruiting Faculty in Neurophysiology of Channels, Synapses and Circuits Research

描述(由申请人提供)：对于达特茅斯医学院(DMS)来说，这是令人兴奋但又充满挑战的时代，我们努力招聘和培养初级教员，以在达特茅斯大学生物医学研究和教育方面的卓越传统中茁壮成长并永垂不朽。自2008年10月以来，财政紧缺对DMS造成了不利影响，促使教师招聘无限期暂停，包括在生理学系持续寻找一名终身教职跟踪神经生理学助理教授。因此，系将目前针对RFA-OD-09-005的P30申请视为重新利用停滞不前的教师招聘的机会，不仅是为了确保系内学术使命的平稳过渡，而且也是为了加强与DMS其他组成部分和整个达特茅斯科学界的神经科学研究努力的联系。生理学系处于战略地位，可以利用目前的ARRA倡议。我们有一个有限的捐赠基金，专门用于生理学教师的发展。虽然这笔资金本身不足以提供一个完整的教师招聘一揽子计划，但它足以提供RFA-09-005规定的额外两年的支助。我们建议：(1)在生理学系和以生理学为基础的核心中心招聘一名终身教职助理教授，他是一名系统神经学家，具有研究兴趣，将提供对正常神经系统功能和脑疾病机制的综合了解。新兵的主要任命将在生理学；交叉任命将在神经内科或精神病学系。(2)促进新的初级教员研究项目的开展和发展。(3)导师，以帮助推进学术生涯并留住达特茅斯的新教员。现有的核心多学科教研室研究人员加强了彼此的研究，并分享了研究兴趣，以获得对与神经和/或精神疾病状态相关的通道和神经回路连接的发展、结构和功能的综合理解。这个核心中心的成员共同拥有丰富的发展助理教授职业生涯的经验，并为扩大基础设施和招聘系统神经科医生奠定了坚实的基础，该系统神经科医生将是达特茅斯具有全国竞争力的神经疾病相关研究企业持续发展不可或缺的一部分。 公共卫生相关性：达特茅斯医学院生理学系在RFA-09-005的支持下申请资助，以招聘一名新的终身教职跟踪助理教授教员。个人将成为一名系统神经学家，对研究神经回路功能与神经和/或精神疾病状态有关的研究感兴趣。增加这样一名新的教职员工将是达特茅斯大学一个具有全国竞争力的神经疾病相关研究企业可持续发展不可或缺的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): These are exciting yet challenging times for Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), as we strive to recruit and nurture junior-level faculty to thrive in and perpetuate Dartmouth's rich tradition of excellence in biomedical research and education. The financial exigency that has adversely affected DMS since October of 2008 prompted suspension of faculty recruitments for an indeterminate length of time, including an ongoing search in the Department of Physiology to recruit a tenure-track Assistant Professor in neurophysiology. Thus, the Department views the current P30 application in response to RFA-OD-09-005 as an opportunity to re-engage the stalled faculty recruitment, not only to ensure a smooth generational transition of the academic missions within the Department, but also to strengthen its ties with neuroscience research endeavors in other components of DMS and the Dartmouth scientific community at-large. The Department of Physiology is strategically positioned to capitalize on the present ARRA initiative. We have a restricted endowed fund specifically earmarked for Physiology faculty development. While this fund is by itself insufficient for a complete faculty recruitment package, it is sufficient to provide for the two additional years of support stipulated in RFA-09-005. We propose to: (1) Recruit a tenure-track Assistant Professor into the Department of Physiology and the Physiology-based Core Center who is a systems neurosclentist with research interests that will provide an integrative understanding of normal nervous system function and brain disease mechanisms. The recruit's primary appointment will be in Physiology; cross appointment will be in the Department of Neurology or Psychiatry. (2) Foster the launching and development of the new junior faculty member's research program. (3) Mentor to help advance the academic career and retain the new faculty member at Dartmouth. An existing core of established multidisciplinary faculty investigators enhances each other's research and share research interests in gaining an integrative understanding of the development, structure and function of channels and neural circuit connectivity as they relate to neurological and/or mental disease states. The members of this Core Center collectively have substantial experience developing careers of Assistant Professors and form a strong base to expand the infrastructure and to recruit a system neurosclentist who will be integral to the sustainability of a nationally-competitive, neurological disorders-related research enterprise at Dartmouth. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Department of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School requests funding under the aegis of RFA- 09-005 to recruit a new tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty member. The individual will be a systems neurosclentist with research interest in investigating neural circuit function as they relate to neurological and/or mental disease states. The addition of such a new faculty member will be integral to the sustainability of a nationally-competitive, neurological disorders-related research enterprise at Dartmouth.