Interdisciplinary

Job Description

About the Position: As the Department of Defense's lead laboratory for the development of medical countermeasures against chemical, biochemical, and other acute non-kinetic battlefield injuries, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) is increasingly called upon to provide expertise and consultative services related to medical chemical defense research and to the medical management of chemical casualties.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Serves as a principal investigator leading teams that conduct basic and applied research to develop medical solutions for chemical, biochemical, and other acute non-kinetic battlefield injuries.
• Utilizing in vitro, ex vivo, and/or in vivo models, our research teams carry out research endeavors from concept to definitive pre-clinical studies.
• These research efforts culminate in the development of medical countermeasures including both therapeutics and devices, as well as knowledge products and methodologies that advance medical treatments .
• Research projects are diverse and take a multi-disciplinary teaming approach to cover scientific fields such as toxicology, neuroscience, pharmacology, biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology, animal behavior, physiology, and/or cell biology.