To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
— Research experience in fluid biomarkers associated with ADRD, especially with identifying novel biomarkers, developing assays, and validating the utility of biomarkers for diagnosis and monitoring disease.
— Experience applying statistical and data analysis techniques to interpret biomarker data.
— Ability to develop and lead a program of independent, extramurally funded research including a record of leadership of, or contributions to, major successful peer-reviewed grant proposals appropriate to the applicant’s academic rank.
— Academic credentials that qualify for appointment at the Associate Professor level or above, at Rutgers University including a record of successful extramural funding and peer-reviewed publications addressing Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related disorders. Superb young investigators with NIH funding and a high potential for scientific independence and success will be considered.
— Record of successful multi-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship of students and early-stage investigators.
— Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate research findings and concepts to both academic and non-academic audiences.
— Ability to successfully engage and communicate with study participants, community, and public policy leaders.
— Strong interest and enthusiasm in helping achieve successful implementation of the new cohort and contributing to cutting-edge science.
In addition.
— Serve as a key leader in developing a well phenotyped dementia risk cohort.
— Provide leadership in ensuring robust, harmonizable protocols regarding fluid biomarkers of AD/ADRD.
— Lead a program of extramurally funded research in AD/ADRD that will contribute to the development of, and leveraging of, the research cohort.
— Lead and collaborate on manuscripts using cohort data.
— Lead and contribute to grant proposals that support future funding of cohort data collection and address research questions of high scientific and public health importance in AD.
— Successfully compete for extramural funding.
— Contribute to research communication activities with participants, and community audiences.
— Participate in mentoring, training, and professional development of staff, post-doctoral fellows, junior physicians and faculty, students, and others collaborating on the cohort study.
— Other duties may be assigned:
