Research Scientist

Research Scientist to establish and direct research projects within the Department of Neurological Surgery, Wexner Medical Center Neurobiology and Energy Balance Lab; helps to designs, and implements gene therapy research projects including toxicology, pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of AAV vectors for neurodegenerative disease(s) including study design, protocol and report writing; assists in the support of clinical trials and provides scientific and translational support to meet clinical trial deadlines and data packages, identifies new research directions (including targets, methodologies and other research opportunities), coordinates writing and submission of grant proposals as co-investigator to extramural funding agencies to obtain significant salary and research support from outside funding agencies; develops, adopts and implements new laboratory methods; develops hypothesis and experimental approach to hypothesis testing; plans, designs and conducts complex experiments; extracts, compiles, analyzes and evaluates data to establish relevance to the problems being evaluated; administers grants; directs and manages grant budgets; manages laboratory operations; writes manuscripts, articles, abstracts and research reports for publication in peer-reviewed journals; attends and presents research findings at national and international scientific conferences; develops and conducts educational workshops, lectures and seminars; collaborates with other researchers in determining research priorities and planning programs of research; trains junior investigators, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students and technicians within laboratory.

75% lab research

15% research administrative (reporting, oversight/supervision, compliance, etc.)