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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
Corinne Dickinson Goldsmith Center for Multiple Sclerosis
Friedman Brain Institute

NIH-FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION 
A federally funded Postdoctoral Fellow – Research Associate position is available to study mechanisms regulating inflammation and regeneration in the brain and spinal cord. Core techniques include culture and coculture of primary rodent and human astroglia and cerebrovascular endothelia, genome-scale analyses (RNA-seq and ChIP-seq) of responses of these populations to defined inflammatory stimuli, and in vivo validation of resulting data using conditional knockout animal models and pathologic human samples. 
Recent examples of our research in this area:
Chapouly C et al. Brain. 2015 138(6):1548-67.
Argaw AT et al. J Clin Invest. 2012 122(7):2454-68.
Interested candidates should have a PhD or MD degree, a strong background in molecular and cellular neurobiology, good scientific writing skills, and at least one first author publication in a peer-reviewed journal with an established international readership. 
The position is available immediately, and the applications will be considered on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. The salary will be commensurate with the experience.

Who We Are:
Over 35,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospital campuses, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai Roosevelt, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

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