Research assistant position at Women and Children, Brown Alpert Medical School

Research assistant position at Women and Children, Brown Alpert Medical School

Our laboratory is concerned with understanding the effects of brain ischemia on blood-brain barrier permeability to cytokines and potential anti-cytokine neuroprotective strategies using the fetal sheep and a neonatal rat models. The work will potentially yield neuroprotective strategies that will prevent the development of cerebral palsy in infants. Our exciting two year position includes participation in experiments in pregnant sheep and neonatal rats, which include surgical preparation, physiologic studies, molecular biological, immunohistochemical, immunological analysis in the fetal sheep and neonatal rat brains, computerized analysis of hemodynamic measures in the fetus, and EEG analysis of the fetal brain and computerized microscopic analysis of both neonatal rat and fetal sheep brain. This exciting neuroscience opportunity in an extremely productive laboratory will permit the research assistant opportunity for publication in prestigious peer review journals. The position requires BA, BS or MA degree preferably, familiarity with neuroscience in molecular and biologic, histological and microscopic approaches. Experience with laboratory bench work, data acquisition, statistical analysis and analytic microscopic work is preferred, but not required. These are an ideal position for a recent graduate willing to make a commitment for two years to funded NIH grants.

For more information, contact Dr. Barbara Stonestreet at 274-1122, x7429 or Bstonestreet@wihri.org  (email).

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