Highly motivated individuals with a PhD or MD/PhD in relevant area are encouraged to apply. This training position, under the direct supervision of a Cleveland Clinic Principal Investigator will provide practical training and experience in a research setting. This position will be located at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a commitment to research, a collaborative work ethic and strong communication skills, both written and verbal. This program is expected to be completed within 5 years.

Principal Investigator: Virendra R. Mishra, PhD

Lerner Research Institute Department: Imaging Research, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Lab Research Topics:

• Diffusion Weighted MRI
• Resting and task functional MRI
• Arterial Spin Labeling MRI
• Machine and Deep Learning using data from multimodal MRI, biofluids, genetics, and clinical variables
• Meta analysis
• For more information about the lab’s research, please visit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virendra-Mishra-4 or contact Dr. Mishra at [email protected]

Job Responsibilities:

• Independent project design with the goal of data generation, analysis, interpretation and manuscript preparation
• Assisting the lab in data collection
• Developing novel methods along with utilizing existing methods for analysis 
• Developing a predictive algorithm utilizing multimodal MRI, genetics, CSF and serum proteins, and clinical features to predict dementia in PD.

Education:

• PhD or MD/PhD required
• MD with relevant laboratory experience may substitute for PhD

Languages:

• English Proficiency proof required for candidates arriving on J-1, J-2, or F1 + OPT visa status

Work Experience:

• Previous experience in a research or academic setting.  Graduate student experience meets this requirement.
• Scientific writing experience

Additional Preferred Qualities:

• PhD in biomedical engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or related 
• Ability to supervise the work of others to focus team efforts and motivate individuals
• Experience in working with the multi-shell dMRI 
• Interest/Experience in multimodal and multivariate statistical modelling
• Interest/Experience in developing predictive algorithms using deep learning or machine learning techniques 

Preferred Application Materials:

• CV
• List of 1-3 first-author publications
• Research motivation
• PhD thesis

Keywords: Postdoc, Research, FRIC, Research, MRI, Multimodal, Multivariate, Statistical modelling, Diffusion MRI, dMRI, Functional MRI, fMRI, Arterial Spin Labelling MRI, pCASL MRI, Deep learning, Machine learning, Data reduction, MatLab, Python, R, Open source

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