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，这是一个令人兴奋但充满挑战的时期，因为我们努力招聘和培养初级教师，以茁壮成长并延续达特茅斯在生物医学研究和教育方面的卓越传统。自2008年10月以来，财政危机对DMS产生了不利影响，导致教职人员的招聘暂停了一段不确定的时间，包括生理学系正在招聘的神经生理学终身助理教授。因此，为了响应RFA-OD-09-005，学院将目前的P30申请视为重新启动停滞不前的教师招聘的机会，不仅可以确保学院内部学术任务的平稳代际过渡，还可以加强与DMS其他组成部分和达特茅斯科学界的神经科学研究工作的联系。生理学系的战略定位是利用目前的ARRA倡议。我们有一笔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用于完整的教师招聘计划，但它足以提供RFA-09-005规定的额外两年支持。我们建议：(1)招募一名终身助理教授到生理学系和生理基础核心中心，他是一名系统神经科学家，研究兴趣将提供正常神经系统功能和脑部疾病机制的综合理解。新员工的主要职责是生理学；交叉预约将在神经内科或精神科进行。(2)促进新教师科研项目的启动和发展。(3)为达特茅斯学院的新教员提供导师，帮助其推进学术生涯并留住新教员。现有的多学科研究人员核心加强了彼此的研究，并在获得与神经和/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方面分享了研究兴趣。这个核心中心的成员共同拥有丰富的经验，发展助理教授的职业生涯，形成了一个强大的基础，以扩大基础设施，并招募一个系统神经科学家，他将成为达特茅斯一个具有全国竞争力的神经系统疾病相关研究企业的可持续性的组成部分。

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.