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The new Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) opened in December 2010. Dedicated to improving the lives of patients facing devastating neurological disorders, the NRI is one of the first basic research institutes committed to understanding the pathogenesis of childhood neurological diseases with the ultimate goal of developing treatments. In the past two decades, we have made great strides in understanding the molecular defects underlying neurological diseases. Collaboration and leadership in genetics and neuroscience have allowed faculty at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital to discover the underlying causes of dozens of neurological disorders. The NRI’s mission is to reduce the temporal and conceptual gap between initial gene discovery and clinical applications by providing the context, the core services, and the community to support multi-institutional collaborations between physicians, scientists, and patients. The NRI connects Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and provides the context for collaborative, interdisciplinary research. We are adding to our expertise in genetics, developmental biology, and neurobiology through strategic recruiting that extends beyond the traditional biomedical sciences to include computational biology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. Recruitment of new faculty is ongoing and will continue over the course of the next few years. Ten core laboratories support the ongoing research by providing highly-specialized services ranging from bioinformatic analysis to neuropathology, imaging, and electrophysiology. Such core facilities are crucial for the support of young investigators. NRI investigators study diverse problems addressing basic neurodevelopmental questions and neurological disorders using Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute cross-species and interdisciplinary approaches. NRI researchers are faculty members of Baylor College of Medicine, the academic partner Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. of Texas Children’s Hospital. Several faculty members are jointly Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute appointed with Rice University or the Telethon Institute of Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Medicine, based in Naples, Italy. These local and international Professor, Baylor College of Medicine collaborations bring unique and complementary expertise to bridge the gap between genes and neurobiology of disease. John W. Swann, Ph.D. The NRI serves as a model for best practices in collaborative research Co-Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute and education to accelerate discoveries and improve patient care. It offers Professor, Baylor College of Medicine the unparalleled opportunity to bring together top-tier scientists from a Director, Cain Foundation Laboratories range of disciplines to focus on developmental disorders of the brain, ultimately creating something much larger than the sum of its parts. For more information, please visit our Web site at nri.texaschildrens.org.

Texas Children’s Hospital Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital is committed to a community of healthy children Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston is recognized as a premier by providing the finest pediatric patient care, education and research. academic health science center and is known for excellence in education, Renowned worldwide for its expertise and breakthrough developments research and patient care. It is the only private medical school in the in clinical care and research, Texas Children’s is nationally ranked in all greater southwest and is ranked as one of the top 25 medical schools ten subspecialties in U.S.News & World Report’s list of America’s for research in U.S.News & World Report. BCM is listed 13th among Best Children’s Hospitals. Texas Children’s also operates the nation’s all U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, and largest primary pediatric care network, with more than 40 offices No. 2 in the nation in federal funding for research and development in the throughout the greater Houston community. Texas Children’s has biological sciences at universities and colleges by the National Science embarked on a $1.5 billion expansion, Vision 2010, which includes the Foundation. Located in the Texas Medical Center, BCM has affiliations Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; the Texas Children’s with eight teaching hospitals. Currently, BCM trains more than 3,000 Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility medical, graduate, nurse anesthesia, and physician assistant students, focusing on high-risk births and Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, as well as residents and post-doctoral fellows. BCM is also home to a community hospital in suburban West Houston. For more information the Baylor Clinic, an adult clinical practice that includes advanced on Texas Children’s Hospital, go to www.texaschildrens.org. technologies for faster, more accurate diagnosis and treatment, access to the latest clinical trials and discoveries, and groundbreaking healthcare based on proven research. For more information on Baylor College of Medicine, go to www.bcm.edu. Senior Faculty Position in Autism Research multidisciplinary environment. The candidate models. A generous startup package and Texas Children’s Hospital and should be particularly proficient in premier laboratory space will be provided. Baylor College of Medicine using model organisms to address Opportunities to serve in the pediatric neurodevelopmental questions or crucial neuropathology service at Texas Children’s Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College problems in neurological disorders. Hospital are available for interested of Medicine are seeking a leader to develop individuals. Joint appointments in other a first-rate autism program encompassing This faculty member will be housed in the basic science departments are available basic and clinical research. Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research for individuals with independent research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital. The successful candidate must have a interests, and opportunities for collaborative Applicants must possess a Ph.D. and/or an strong foundation in psychiatry, psychology, research are abundant at both institutions. M.D. degree and are expected to develop developmental pediatrics, genetics, or Interested individuals must possess a an internationally recognized, extramurally neurology as well as an established research M.D. or equivalent degree, and board funded research program and be active in program in the field of autism. Our search certification in anatomic pathology and/or training students and fellows. This selected will focus on candidates with demonstrated neuropathology. Academic rank and salary individual will have a primary appointment leadership at the Associate Professor or will be commensurate with experience. in the appropriate basic science Full Professor level. We are seeking an department(s) at Baylor College of Medicine Candidates should send a curriculum vitae outstanding clinician-scientist with a (e.g., Molecular and Human Genetics, and personal statement of professional demonstrated track record of excellence Neuroscience, etc.). Joint appointments goals to: in patient care and research. Preference are available based on research interests. will be given to individuals with a successful James Versalovic, M.D., Ph.D. Opportunities for collaborative research history of extramural funding. Head, NRI Neuropathology are abundant at both Baylor College of Search Committee The selected candidate will receive Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. A Texas Children’s Hospital appointments in Baylor College of very generous startup package, highly Department of Pathology Medicine’s Departments of Pediatrics competitive salary and premier laboratory 6621 Fannin St. MC 1-2261 and Psychiatry as well as basic science space will be provided. Houston TX 77030 department(s) according to interest and Candidates should send a curriculum vitae Fax: 832-825-0164 expertise. If the candidate has a basic and personal statement of research plans Email: [email protected] research program, the laboratory space (three page maximum) as a single PDF file will be located in the new Jan and Dan Application Deadline: August 1, 2011 by email to: Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. The candidate Barbara Cochran, NRI Coordinator Texas Children’s Hospital is the largest will have the opportunity and resources Email: [email protected] pediatric hospital in the United States to recruit additional faculty and staff to and the primary teaching hospital for Application Deadline: August 1, 2011 develop the new program. Salary is highly Baylor College of Medicine’s Department competitive and commensurate with of Pediatrics. A Tenure-Track Faculty Position for a academic level and productivity. Neuropathologist at the Jan and Dan The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Interested individuals should send a Duncan Neurological Research Institute Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s curriculum vitae and brief description Texas Children’s Hospital and Hospital brings together world experts in of research interests and professional Baylor College of Medicine genetics, neurology, neuroscience, pediatrics, goals to: developmental biology and computational The Departments of Pathology and biology to pursue collaborative basic and Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital and translational research on a variety of Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Baylor College of Medicine are seeking a neurological and neurodevelopmental Neurological Research Institute full-time academic physician-scientist with disorders, including autism. The 13-story 1250 Moursund Street, Mailstop N.1350 primary interests in neuropathology and NRI building includes open laboratory Houston, Texas 77030 developmental disorders of the central space which offers a unique interdisciplinary Email: [email protected] nervous system. This faculty member will environment. be housed in the Jan and Dan Duncan Application Deadline: August 1, 2011 Neurological Research Institute at Texas Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is Children’s Hospital. recognized as a premier academic health A Tenure-Track Faculty Position for a science center and is known for excel- Neurobiologist at the Jan and Dan Duncan This individual will have appointments in the lence in education, research and patient Neurological Research Institute Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics care. It is the only private medical school Texas Children’s Hospital and at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas in the greater southwest and is ranked as Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Hospital. Primary responsibilities one of the top 25 medical schools for will include the direction of an independently Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College research in U.S.News & World Report. funded research program in developmental of Medicine are seeking an outstanding neurobiology/neuropathology and Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal neurobiologist at the assistant or associate leadership of a core facility in cellular and Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Equal professor level who will contribute molecular morphology/imaging of animal Access Employer. extensively to a highly interactive,

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