| Description: <font class="bold">Position Details</font> <p></p> <div> <div> <div> Position Information <p></p> </div> <table> <tr> <th align="left">Recruitment/Posting Title</th> <td>Research Associate II</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="left">Job Category</th> <td>Staff & Executive - Research (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory)</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="left">Department</th> <td>RWJ - Brain Health Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="left">Overview</th> <td><div>New Jersey's academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (<span class="caps">RBHS</span>) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, <span class="caps">RBHS</span> includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state-at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark's University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="left">Posting Summary</th> <td><div>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Research Teaching Associate II for the Brain Health Institute within the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.The primary purpose of the Research Teaching Associate II is to perform experiments to examine how the orexin system interacts with stress and reward circuitries, and how this changes in an animal model of addiction. The research examines how the orexin system interacts with stress and reward circuits in the brain, and how these systems are changed in addiction. This knowledge will facilitate the development of orexin-based therapies that can effectively treat the multifaceted symptoms associated with addiction. Performs work requiring application of standard techniques and procedures.Among the key duties of this position are the following:</div><ul><li>As directed, performs various research and clinical technical operations relative to ongoing investigatory activities of a laboratory; may assist in conducting specialized research for a particular phase of a project.</li><li>Participates in the development of performance standards, selection of methodology and instrumentation and coordination of the analytical, biochemical, physiology and instrumentation functions with the clinical and research areas to ensure conformance with the goals and objectives of the department.</li><li>Conducts behavioral and pharmacological experiments in rodents to delineate mechanisms underlying opioid abuse.</li><li>Conducts behavioral and pharmacological experiments in rodents to develop novel therapeutic approaches to prevent development of addiction propensity during chronic administration of prescription opioids.</li><li>Uses specialized computer skills in <span class="caps">COBOL</span>, <span class="caps">JAVA</span> and other programming language and use databases such as <span class="caps">JCL</span>, <span class="caps">SQL</span> and DB2 to analyze laboratory data.</li><li>Analyzes, organizes, and presents data at laboratory meetin |
