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News Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 09:45
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for postdoctoral research fellowships at the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Fellows receive research training in the clinical pharmacology of substance use including human laboratory studies and clinical treatment trials. Fellows benefit from experienced faculty and a NIDA-funded T32 training grant with a productive 35+ year history and over 130 graduates.
Areas of interest: Medications development, abuse liability, self-administration, executive functioning, behavioral economics, neuroimaging, behavioral treatments including incentives/contingency-based treatments, and therapeutic applications of psilocybin. Substances of interest include opioids, cocaine, hallucinogens, cannabinoids, alcohol, nicotine/tobacco, caffeine and other stimulants.
Eligibility: U.S. citizen, permanent resident. Many backgrounds are appropriate, including experimental or clinical psychology, pharmacology, psychiatry, neuroscience, public health, and social work. Background in human or nonhuman research is appropriate.
Start date: Flexible.
Faculty: https://www.
Contact: Maggie Sweeney, Ph.D. (marymsweeney@jhmi.edu) or George Bigelow, Ph.D. (bigelow@jhmi.edu). See: https://www.
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