**Job Description**

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated Life Science Research Professional 2 to join Dr. Sergiu Pasca’s research program in a 1-year fixed term role.

Our Stanford research team seeks to understand the rules that govern the molecular and cellular steps underlying the assembly of the human brain and the molecular mechanisms that lead to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. We are developing bottom-up approaches to generate and assemble, from multi-cellular components, human neural circuits. More specifically, we have pioneered the generation from human pluripotent stem cells of brain region-specific organoids ( _Nature Methods_ 2015; _Neuron_ 2017; _Nature Methods_ 2019; _Nature Neuroscience_ 2019) and assembloids ( _Nature_ 2017; _Nature Biotechnology_ 2020; _Cell_ 2020), which we applied to gain mechanistic insights into disease ( _Nature...