The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Laboratory of Neurotoxicology seeks a postdoctoral trainee to conduct research on protein complexes associated with neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Collaborative projects between NIMH basic neuroscientists and LNT have identified promising gene products as targets with functional consequences in learning, memory, and development that require either differential or quantitative proteomics approaches. Fellows will select a specific neuroscience project and apply advanced techniques in proteomics.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree with less than five years of postdoctoral experience. This position is available immediately.

NIMH is a major research component of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services, which have nationwide responsibility for improving the health and well being of all Americans.


The NIH is dedicated to building a diverse community in its training and employment programs.

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The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. This public health mandate demands that we harness powerful scientific tools to achieve better understanding, treatment, and eventually, prevention of these disabling conditions that affect millions of Americans.

To fulfill its mission, the Institute:

• conducts research on mental disorders and the underlying basic science of brain and behavior;
• supports research on these topics at universities and hospitals around the United States;
• collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on the causes, occurrence, and treatment of mental illnesses;
• supports the training of more than 1,000 scientists to carry out basic and clinical research; and
• communicates information to scientists, the public, the news media, and primary care and mental health professionals about mental illnesses, the brain, behavior, mental health, and opportunities and advances in research in these areas.