Benefits & Strengths of the Post-Doctoral Experience at LIBR
- Salary above NIH scale
- 13% above the national average
- Research focus – no teaching required
- Institutional support reduces dependence on soft money
- Living in Tulsa
- As of 2023, 40% lower cost of living than Boston, 50% lower than San Francisco, 61% lower than New York
- As of 2023, the median home price in Tulsa is $157,200—43% below the national average
- Tight-knit community meets a population large enough to support world-class music and theatre, sports venues and one of the most impressive park systems in the country, including the recently opened $465 million Gathering Place
- Comprehensive research support and training
- Two research dedicated scanners with pilot funds available for new imaging studies
- Data management and statistics core service with staff scientists to assist with EEG and fMRI data preprocessing and analysis
- Participant assessment and recruitment core – including clinical evaluation – to support investigator-initiated studies
- Available existing data (n > 5000) including multimodal neuroimaging metrics, biomarkers, neuropsychological assessment, clinical symptom inventory and interviews.
- K club and R club to develop proposals and gain wide feedback
- Opportunity to engage with multiple interdisciplinary mentors
- Track record of transitioning junior investigators to independence
- 36% successful K award applications
- Two K99/R00 awards in the last three years
- Two early career investigator R01 awardees in the last four years
- One early career DP1 awardee this year
- Current CoBRE Phase 2 award (2023-2028)
- NeuroMAP includes investigator salary support with additional substantial research funding and support of LIBR research cores
- Resources available
- Pilot grants
- Scanner time
- Research core services allowing postdocs to focus on their skills
- Diversity initiative to support inclusion of diverse perspectives in the work of LIBR with monthly article discussions, training initiatives, speaker series and community engagement activities
- Single campus
- Short commute times and easy parking at LIBR
- Collaboration with University of Oklahoma and The University of Tulsa
- Opportunity to engage with William K. Warren (WKW) "Frontiers in Neuroscience" lecture series speakers
- Experience that prepares postdocs for academia or industry
- Bart Ford: Postdoc in 2020-2021, became Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences 2021.
- Namik Kirlic: Postdoc in 2016, Promoted to Associate Investigator in 2018. Currently working in industry as the Director of Therapy Research and Discovery at Compass Pathways.
- Philip Spechler Postdoc in 2019 -2022. Currently working as the Principal Statistician at Wave Neuroscience.
Former Post-Doc Stories
Evan White: Postdoc in 2019, promoted to Associate Investigator/ Assistant Research Professor and awarded K99R00 in 2020, promoted to Principal Investigator/Associate Research Professor in 2022 and awarded DP1 in 2023
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Haixia Zheng: Postdoc in 2019, promoted to Associate Investigator/Assistant Research Professor in 2022, awarded K01 in 2023.
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Emily Choquette: Postdoc in 2021, awarded K23 and promoted to Associate Investigator/ Research Assistant Professor in 2023
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Aki Tsuchiyagaito: Postdoc in 2018, promoted to Associate Investigator/ Assistant Research Professor in 2022
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