Jr. Faculty Recruitment into New Auditory Neuroscience Cores

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的五年里，内耳研究所(HELL)失去了听觉和通讯神经科学以及细胞和分子生物学领域的关键研究人员。如果不通过招募新的研究人员来补救，它就有跌破维持重要研究环境所需的临界质量的危险。为了能够成功地招募新的研究人员，HELL最近将研究计划重组为两个核心(部门)：细胞生物学和遗传学(CB&G)和通信和听觉神经科学(CAN)。在这两个领域，我们都打开了搜索，进行了面试，并为CAN选择了一名首选候选人。财政困难限制了我们为被选中的人提供职位的能力，因此我们通过ARRA P30机制申请资金，以支持为每个核心招聘一名新科学家。HELL为听力障碍的研究提供了理想的环境，并正在努力通过招聘一名神经生理学家来满足对CAN核心加强研究的需求，并努力满足CB&G核心在基因调节(毛细胞再生)或人类遗传学领域的需求。拟提供相当多的机构支助(65%)，以保证新征聘人员在拟议供资之外至少5年内继续取得成功，即总共7年。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past five years, the House Ear Institute (HEl) has lost key investigators in the areas of auditory and communication neuroscience, as well as cell and molecular biology. If not remedied through new recruitment of investigators, it is in danger of falling below the critical mass necessary to sustain a vital research environment. To enable successful recruitment of new investigators, HEl recently reorganized the research programs into two cores (divisions): Cell Biology and Genetics (CB&G) and Communication and Auditory Neuroscience (CAN). In both areas we have opened searches, conducted interviews, and for CAN, selected a preferred candidate. Financial difficulties have restricted our ability to offer the selected person a position and so we are requesting funding through the ARRA P30 mechanism to support recruitment of a new scientist for each core. HEl provides an ideal environment for the study of hearing disorders, and is striving to fill a need for strengthened research in the CAN core by the recruitment of a neurophysiologist, and for the CB&G core in the area of either gene regulation (hair cell regeneration) or human genetics. A considerable level of institutional support (65%) is proposed that will guarantee the continued success of the new recruits for a minimum of 5 years beyond the proposed funding, i.e., for a total of 7 years.