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Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP)

NIMH-Funded (T32) Training Grant

Missions

  • To train post-doctoral fellows in biological and behavioral neurosciences relevant to mental illness and health
  • To help fill a nationally recognized need of increasing the number of research psychiatrists with a grounding in basic biological sciences
  • To develop the interest of basic scientists in clinical problems as well as interdisciplinary aspects of their own basic research
  • To promote cross-fertilization between basic researchers and individuals with clinical experience/expertise

Who is eligible?

  • Psychiatrists, generally after completing two or three years of clinical residency training
  • Individuals with a PhD degree in basic science
  • The BSTP is open to all individuals interested in receiving training in the neurobiology of complex behaviors and major mental illness and health. The BSTP director and faculty are dedicated to developing a training program for fellows from diverse backgrounds, and recruitment of fellows from under represented minorities and with disabilities is a major priority and focus of our efforts.

Location

Trainees work with any Department of Psychiatry Faculty mentor pursuing research and/or other academic activities consistent with the program’s patient-oriented research mission.

How to Apply

Interested individuals should identify a potential mentor from the affiliated BSTP Training Faculty listed below and contact them directly to determine whether there is an opportunity for a host lab. After identifying and agreeing on a host lab, please contact Alexa-Nicole Sliby at alexa-nicole.sliby@yale.edu for information on how to make a formal application.

Please note that because this is an NIH Training Grant, only US citizens and Green Card holders are eligible for support.

BSTP/T32 Faculty

  • Director

    Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology; Director Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry; Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

  • Associate Director, Diversity

    Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Director of Faculty Development and Collaborative Excellence, YSM Office of Collaborative Excellence

  • John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program

  • Vikram Sodhi ’92 Professor of Psychiatry; Director Schizophrenia Neuropharmacology Research Group at Yale (SNRGY); Director, Neurobiological Studies Unit, VACHS; Director, VA-CMHC Schizophrenia Research Clinic; Director, Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids ; Chair, Research and Development Committee, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

  • Professor of Neuroscience and of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry; Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR); Associate Director, MD-PhD Program

  • Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD

  • Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry

  • Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience; Director, Center of Excellence in Gambling Research; Director, Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders; Director, Women and Addictive Disorders, Women's Health Research at Yale; Director, Division on Addictions at Yale, Yale Department of Psychiatry

  • George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Depression Research Program; Co-Director, Yale New Haven Hospital Interventional Psychiatry Service

  • Harris Professor in the Child Study Center; Director, Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, Child Study Center; Professor in the Department of Neuroscience