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NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program

Applications are now open for the NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program

This interdisciplinary training and research program offers exceptional postdoctoral scientists the freedom to address big unanswered questions at the intersection of two or more scientific disciplines.

Gladstone provides an ideal environment for training in integrative neuroscience with dedicated mentorship by world-class investigators. After completing their research project with two co-mentors, NOMIS Fellows will be in an ideal position to launch independent careers.

Collaborations with UC San Francisco (UCSF) further expand the opportunities for professional and career development. NOMIS–Gladstone Fellows will have a primary appointment at GIND and an affiliation with UCSF’s Department of Neurology.

Fellowship Benefits

Fellowship Benefits

  • Access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at Gladstone and UCSF
  • Freedom to explore high-risk concepts
  • Acquire qualifications needed to compete for an independent academic faculty position
  • Fully funded two-year position with the possibility of performance-based extensions up to a total of four years
  • Support for research and travel
  • Annual salary of $80–95,000 plus benefits and an annual $10,000 housing supplement
  • Opportunity to acquire interdisciplinary research skills through co-mentorship in a highly collaborative environment
  • Integration into outstanding Gladstone, UCSF, and NOMIS Foundation networks of pioneering researchers

To solve complex neuroscientific and biomedical problems, our fellowship program teaches outstanding postdoctoral scholars how to creatively combine leading-edge technologies and integrate discoveries across experimental models and human biology.

Focus of Research and Training

Mechanisms and Topics

  • Cellular and synaptic basis of behavior
  • Functions and roles of proteins implicated in adaptive and maladaptive brain plasticity
  • Interactions between the immune and nervous systems
  • Biological importance of the neurovascular junction
  • Communication between neuronal and glial cells
  • Regulation of brain rhythms by interneurons and glia
  • Uniqueness of brain energy metabolism

Technological Skill Acquisition

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
  • Behavioral phenotyping
  • Cellular reprogramming
  • Chemo- and optogenetics
  • Gene editing and genetic screening
  • In vivo imaging and electrophysiology
  • “Omics”

Eligibility Requirements

  • PhD or MD
  • Strong interest in interdisciplinary neuroscience training
  • Genuine commitment to developing an independent academic career
  • Outstanding records of relevant achievements and creativity
  • Evidence for high levels of curiosity, imagination, and perseverance

Apply

To apply for the NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program, please submit the following items:

  • Curriculum vitae
  • Statement of research interests (up to two pages)
  • Description of long-term career goals (half page)
  • Contact information for three references who are current or former mentors
  • Applicants should also indicate one primary mentor from the faculty of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease for the initial application. If desired, applicants may also list a potential co-mentor

For submission of application materials and inquiries contact:

Randi Mott
NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program
randi.mott@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Mentors

The Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) combines exemplary levels of scientific rigor and innovation with a depth of knowledge and understanding of brain disorders that is rarely found in basic research centers or departments.

Deeply committed to training the next generations of scientists, GIND investigators enthusiastically embrace this mission and recognize the need to create a holistic training environment for postdoctoral scholars to gain the skills and experiences they will need for an independent career. Several scientists who trained with GIND faculty have assumed leadership positions at major universities and other centers of excellence, many run their own productive labs, and most continue to make meritorious contributions to disease-focused neuroscience and translational neurobiology.

NOMIS fellows are expected to pursue cross-disciplinary neuroscience research that leverages co-mentorship from two of the following distinguished faculty members.

Portrait of Ryan Corces, PhD

Ryan Corces, PhD

Assistant Investigator, GIND and Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF

Ryan Corces specializes in epigenetics and has developed trailblazing approaches to the analysis of brain cells by ATAC-seq. He uses this and related technologies to unravel the genomic and phenotypic consequences of variants in non-coding sequences of the human genome.
Portrait of Yadong Huang, MD, PhD

Yadong Huang, MD, PhD

Senior Investigator, GIND and Professor of Neurology and Pathology, UCSF

Yadong Huang is an expert in the neurobiology of apolipoprotein E (apoE). He uses experimental models ranging from knockin mice to human brain cell cultures to define how apoE expression is regulated across brain cell populations and how the expression of this protein affects neuronal functions and interactions with glial cells.
Portrait of Lennart Mucke, MD

Lennart Mucke, MD

Director and Senior Investigator, GIND and Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, UCSF

The Mucke Laboratory has a long track record of innovative contributions to disease-focused neuroscience and of training leaders in this field. They study the role of excessive excitation/inhibition (E/I) ratios of neural networks in diverse brain disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), epilepsy, and autism. By unraveling how the protein tau promotes E/I imbalance and how neural network and immune dysfunctions engage in a vicious circle that promotes synaptic dysfunctions and cognitive decline, the team aims to identify novel strategies to block these pathophysiological mechanisms.
Portrait of Ken Nakamura, MD, PhD

Ken Nakamura, MD, PhD

Senior Investigator, GIND and Professor of Neurology, UCSF

Ken Nakamura is an experienced physician-scientist with a keen interest in mitochondria and energy metabolism in brain cells. He leverages “omics” approaches to broadly characterize gene ensembles that regulate energy metabolism under different conditions and is defining mechanisms and cellular consequences of mitochondrial turnover.
Portrait of Jorge J. Palop, PhD

Jorge J. Palop, PhD

Associate Investigator, GIND and Associate Professor of Neurology, UCSF

Jorge Palop combines in vivo electrophysiology with behavioral testing and leading-edge AI approaches to dissect the roles of interneurons and oscillatory network activities in the generation of brain states and behavioral outputs. He also explores whether enhancing the activities of specific ion channels and interneuron populations can improve memory encoding and other cognitive functions.
Portrait of Jeanne T. Paz, PhD

Jeanne T. Paz, PhD

Associate Investigator, GIND and Associate Professor of Neurology, UCSF

Jeanne Paz is an electrophysiologist who specializes in cellular and circuit mechanisms that modulate brain states. Her lab combines electrophysiology with fiber photometry, imaging, and perturbation approaches (optogenetics) to explore brain circuits and interrogate their roles in rhythmogenesis and behavior. The Paz lab also studies the roles of immune and glial cells in circuit plasticity, epilepsy and comorbidities.
Portrait of Andrew Yang, PhD

Andrew Yang, PhD

Assistant Investigator, GIND and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anatomy, UCSF

Andrew Yang applies his training in engineering and his curiosity about neuroscience toward understanding the meaning, mechanisms, and therapeutic potential of protein and immune cell messages at the critical interface where the brain interfaces with the blood. His research has shown an unexpected degree of communication across the blood-brain barrier and has revealed a critical role for this barrier in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Fellows

NOMIS-Gladstone Fellows are committed to improving the world through transformative scientific discoveries and an impactful academic career. They use and develop leading-edge approaches to solve complex neuroscientific and biomedical problems at the intersection of two or more disciplines.

The NOMIS Foundation and Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease launched the NOMIS-Gladstone Fellowship program in November 2023. Centered around integrative neuroscience, NOMIS-Gladstone fellowships offer a unique opportunity for emerging scientific leaders to pursue high-risk research projects that creatively link and leverage diverse aspects of this exciting field.

The NOMIS-Gladstone Fellowship program will name new fellows on a rolling basis.

Portrait of Yuliya Voskobiynyk, PhD

Yuliya Voskobiynyk, PhD

As a NOMIS-Gladstone Fellow, Voskobiynyk aims to answer questions at the interface between epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease research. She is working with the research groups of Jeanne Paz, PhD, and Lennart Mucke, MD.

Portrait of Myung Jin Yang, PhD

Myung Jin Yang, PhD

Yang investigates the role of apolipoprotein E (APOE) variants in brain waste clearance and cognitive aging. As a NOMIS-Gladstone Fellow, he is working with the research groups of Andrew Yang, PhD, and Yadong Huang, MD, PhD.

Portrait of Cathrine Sant, PhD

Cathrine Sant, PhD

As a NOMIS-Gladstone Fellow, Sant investigates how the complex inversion at the 17q21.31 locus of the human genome, which contains the tau-encoding MAPT gene, affects risk for a varied set of neurodegenerative diseases. She is working with the research groups of Ryan Corces, PhD, and Lennart Mucke, MD.

Applications are now open for the NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program
Contact

For submission of application materials and inquiries contact:

Randi Mott
randi.mott@gladstone.ucsf.edu

 

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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