Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

NIMH Training

NIMH Training

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral training in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics

The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics is pleased to invite applications for doctoral and post-doctoral training.

The Institute offers a rich interdisciplinary training environment in the Virginia Biotechnology Park with outstanding molecular genetic and computer facilities. Institute faculty include some of the leaders in the field of behavioral and psychiatric genetics and reflect a wide range of scientific backgrounds from molecular and statistical genetics to epidemiology, psychology and psychiatry. The Institute is home to the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry which systematically ascertains all twins born in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Currently funded research includes molecular-genetic studies of schizophrenia, nicotine dependence, alcoholism, eating disorders, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and pioneering twin studies of complex disorders including adolescent behavioral development, epilepsy, adult anxiety, depression, substance abuse disorders, and cardiovascular disease, together with pertinent epidemiologic risk factors such as stressful life events, social support and parent-child relationships. In addition, faculty are at the forefront of developing methods for the statistical genetic analysis of complex disorders. The Institute is funded partly by a Research Infrastructure Support Program and is part of a multi-site Center for Developmental Epidemiology with Duke University and Emory University. The training positions will be funded by an NIMH training grant in psychiatric and behavioral genetics.

Doctoral candidates can be accepted into a number of programs at VCU including Human Genetics, Psychology (including Clinical and Developmental specialties), Medicine (MD/PhD), and Biostatistics. Post-doctoral training is tailored to the experience and needs of the candidate. Further information on the degree programs may be found on the VCU website http://www.vcu.edu, and details of the Institute, its faculty and research may be found at http://www.vipbg.vcu.edu

Inquiries should be addressed to
Dr. Michael Neale, Director, NIMH Training Program
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
Box 980126
Richmond VA 23298-0126 USA
Email: neale@hsc.vcu.edu

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