Fellowships are funded by the College of Science and Engineering's and the Medical School's NIH funded T32 Neuroimaging Grant. The award is for two years and each fellow will receive a stipend starting at $61,008 and support for travel, tuition, and healthcare costs. Fellowships will be awarded to outstanding postdoctoral trainees pursuing neuroimaging research.
The fellowship aims to provide recipient's multi-disciplinary skills in neuroimaging technology development and advanced biomedical applications, guidance in career development, and social/networking support through this intense two-year neuroimaging fellowship at University of Minnesota. Each fellow's primary research will be conducted on a multi-disciplinary project that combines their background with another field with the express goal of developing new neuroimaging technologies.
Each fellow recipient will identify a list of potential faculty mentors who will be selected from the 40+ participating faculty from the training grant. Note: We highly encourage candidates to reach out to these potential mentors before the review process begins.
Top applicants will be required to interview with the executive committee and potential faculty mentors.
Once the recipient is selected, two faculty mentors who best match with the recipient will determine who will directly supervise the research project and one that represents a core area related to the research project.
Mentors will be required to submit letters of confirmation once matched with the recipient.
Fellows will take at least two courses to broaden their skillset and prepare for either an academic or industry research career.
Fellows will participate in an Annual Retreat and twice-monthly seminars that will cover research and career development topics such as responsible conduct of research, scientific rigor and reproducibility, grant writing, and other key subjects.
Fellows will also participate in UMN's numerous neuroscience conferences, symposia, and workshops, along with well-established UMN outreach programs to high schoolers and undergraduates from communities under-represented in STEM fields.
Provide 6 month progress reports through the project period (with continued funding contingent on progress). A final report is also due at the end of the award.
All presentations, publications, grant applications, etc., that reference work supported by this fellowship will acknowledged the T32 Minnesota Neuroimaging Training Grant.
The program will be managed by an Executive Board that represents the diversity of the participating faculty across the Medical School and the College of Science & Engineering. Management plans include a rigorous, ongoing evaluation process that incorporates an external Advisory Board and the University of Minnesota's internal research and assessment services.
