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Postdoctoral Openings
Application deadline is March 31, 2008 or until filled. Candidate must be able to start before June 30, 2008.
An additional 3-4 openings are anticipated, for positions to start after July 1, 2008. Application deadline to be announced after funding is confirmed.
Stipend: $36,996 and up, depending on years of experience after doctoral degree.
Benefits: Excellent health insurance coverage and up to $600/year for travel expenses.
Interested candidates must first contact a faculty trainer. After mutual agreement on a project and approximate starting date, the following application materials should be submitted via email attachment to Barbara Lewis:
1. Complete Curriculum Vitae
2. Letter of Recommendation from the proposed mentor with a brief description of the proposed research project and how it is relevant to the new NIEHS guidelines for training grants (see below)
3. Doctoral Transcript (Graduate, Medical, or Veterinary School)
4. Letter of recommendation from doctoral advisor (and current postdoctoral advisor, if relevant)
5. Note: Proof of US citizenship or permanent resident status will be needed before the appointment can be finalized.
2008 NIEHS Guidelines
All trainee research projects supported by the training grants should have a defined focus in the environmental health sciences, and be responsive to the mission of the NIEHS, which is distinguished from that of other Institutes by its support of research programs seeking to understand how environmental exposures alter biologic processes and affect the risk of either disease development or the distribution of disease in populations. Examples of environmental exposures relevant to the mission of the NIEHS include industrial chemicals or manufacturing by-products, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, fungal or bacterially derived toxins due to ambient exposures. Agents considered to belong to the mission area of other NIH Institutes include: alcohol, chemotherapeutic agents, ionizing radiation, drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, smoking (except second-hand smoke), and infectious or parasitic agents, except when these are disease co-factors with an environmental toxicant exposure to produce the biological effect. Training in ecology, ecologic or microbial biotransformation, ecologic biodegradation and remediation, ecological monitoring, wildlife and fisheries biology or studies of sentinel species, geochemistry and other ecologically based environmental studies is supported by the training component of the Superfund Basic Research Program, and will no longer be supported by the NIEHS National Research Service Awards (T32) Program. Training in veterinary medicine where the endpoint is animal health or in food science is also not responsive to the NIEHS NRSA Program. Training in exposure assessment should concentrate on exposure biology, which is at the interface of exposures and human health, and research centered on biomarkers as indicators of body burden, pathophysiological changes, or inception/progression of disease, rather than environmental measurement of ambient contact or point of exposure.
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