The Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience (CBN) at Rutgers New Brunswick-Piscataway campus offers opportunities for underrepresented minority Ph.D. holders to train as Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows (PPF) with one of several faculty members. The PPF program is part of the Presidential Diversity Hiring Initiative Program implemented by the Chancellor- Provost office. A full description of this initiative can be found here: https://academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/investing-faculty-diversity-rutgers.
Briefly, the PPF program covers the fellow’s salary ($65,000/year) and fringe benefits, and also provides $10,000 annually for discretionary research funding for up to 2 years. Candidates may be nominated through an external or internal process. The CBN Department is currently soliciting applications through the internal nomination process. Details and procedures for internal nominations can be found here:
https://academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/investing-faculty-diversity-rutgers
A full description of the PPF program is also attached or can be found here: https://academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/postdoctoral-fellows
Interested candidates may contact the following CBN faculty members to inquire further about this opportunity:
Profs. Megerditch (Mike) Kiledjian, Ron Hart, Victoria Abraira, David Margolis, Peng Jiang, Bonnie Firestein, Rafiq Huda, Kelvin Kwan, Wise Young, Max Tischfield.
A description of their research can be found here: https://cbn.rutgers.edu/research/faculty-research
Once PPF candidates have identified a mentoring faculty member, they may submit a CV and a brief statement identifying the faculty mentor and describing the potential research project to Ms. Morgan Ferretti (
