Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellowship, UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (UNC-CIDD), Chapel Hill, NC

Vanderbilt University, United States

Updated: about 5 hours ago

Posted by Ashley Brady on Thursday, February 5, 2026 in Announcements , Job Opportunities .

UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (UNC-CIDD) is recruiting three (3) postdoctoral fellows, starting this summer, for our NIH-funded T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities , which is co-directed by Mark Shen  and Ben Philpot . Our T32 program emphasizes research training in both the biological basis and clinical manifestations of neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs). Continuously funded by NICHD since 2001, it was one of the first programs in the U.S. to bring together multi-disciplinary postdocs to accelerate translational research on NDDs. The UNC-CIDD T32 program has trained over 65 postdoctoral fellows to date, many of whom have subsequently obtained NIH K-awards, Simons Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome, or other prestigious junior faculty awards, and started their independent labs at R1 universities.

I am also open to accepting a postdoc through this program to work on my lab’s longitudinal neuroimaging and deep phenotyping studies  of infants and toddlers diagnosed with autism and related genetic NDDs (including fragile X, Angelman syndrome, Dup15q, Rett syndrome, and Down syndrome), as well as our clinical trials in these populations.

Interested candidates should read more about the T32 program, application instructions, and *check eligibility (degree and citizenship) requirements at: https://www.med.unc.edu/cidd/training-education/research-training-opportunities/

Eligible candidates should email me ASAP with their CV, research interests/experience, and potential mentor(s) at UNC  they are interested in applying to work with. 

Mark D. Shen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Psychiatry
Director, CIDD Clinical Trials Program

Co-Director, T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
https://markshenlab.org/

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