Research Assistant Professor‚ Healthy Aging, Alzheimer’s, & Related Dementias Researcher, Healthy Aging & Alzheimer’s Research Care (HAARC) Center #NEU065a

The University of Chicago•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Chicago's Department of Neurology in the Biological Sciences Division is searching for a Research Assistant Professor to join the Healthy Aging & Alzheimer’s Research Care (HAARC) Center. The HAARC Center seeks to serve as an aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and related dementia (ADRD) research hub dedicated to the discovery of neurobiological, cognitive, genetic, lifestyle, psychosocial, and related factors that promote resilience, resistance, and extended health span. The Center plans to achieve these goals through multidisciplinary research, community engagement, education, and the development of new evidence-based interventions. The primary activity will be academic research in association with a faculty member or team. The appointee will develop an independent research program focused on the neurobiological and neuropathologic mechanisms underlying cognitive resilience, resistance, heterogeneity, and selective vulnerability across healthy aging and the Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) spectrum, including within the SuperAging framework. This work will leverage existing infrastructure within the HAARC Center and may include the development and application of biomarker, molecular, quantitative, and digital neuropathology approaches, with integration of multimodal phenotypic data. The appointee will also contribute to multidisciplinary, team-based research by integrating neuropathologic data with clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic, and biomarker measures across longitudinal cohorts. This includes participation in biospecimen-based research and efforts to harmonize tissue and laboratory protocols to enable rigorous, cross-cohort discovery.

Requirements

Doctoral degree or equivalent in Biological or Biomedical Sciences or related disciplines.
Completed postdoctoral training.
Publication record.
Ability to obtain extramural grants.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in neuropathologic analysis.
Expertise in tissue processing workflows.
Expertise in quality assurance procedures.
Expertise in integration of neuropathologic data with other data streams.

Responsibilities

Develop an independent research program focused on the neurobiological and neuropathologic mechanisms underlying cognitive resilience, resistance, heterogeneity, and selective vulnerability across healthy aging and the Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) spectrum, including within the SuperAging framework.
Leverage existing infrastructure within the HAARC Center for research.
Develop and apply biomarker, molecular, quantitative, and digital neuropathology approaches.
Integrate multimodal phenotypic data.
Contribute to multidisciplinary, team-based research by integrating neuropathologic data with clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic, and biomarker measures across longitudinal cohorts.
Participate in biospecimen-based research.
Participate in efforts to harmonize tissue and laboratory protocols to enable rigorous, cross-cohort discovery.