Convergent Research is a focused research organization for conducting non-profit science projects and research. Backed by Protocol Labs.
About the role
This is the person who makes the organization run, and takes on the problems that don't yet have an owner. You'd work directly with the CEO. Part of the job is the operational backbone: interfacing with Convergent Research on HR, contracts, and vendors, some administrative work, and building the systems a growing research organization needs.
What they're looking for
- Two backgrounds could work
- An experienced operator. You've run operations or business functions at a startup, research institute, or lab. You've built these systems before and do it better and faster each time
- Evidence you've built something operational where nothing existed, and made it work
- The judgment to know which problems need a system and which just need someone to handle them
- Strong writing ability
- Enough technical curiosity and knowledge to follow a scientific or engineering conversation and know what matters
More about this role
(formerly Forest Neurotech)
Arbor is a nonprofit research organization working on one of the hardest open problems in clinical neuroscience: how to change brain circuits by design.
Millions of people with depression, chronic pain, and other brain disorders have no treatment that works. Modulating activity in the brain circuits underlying their symptoms – with electrical stimulation, focused ultrasound, or magnetic stimulation – can work spectacularly well. But it doesn't work reliably, and we can't predict who it will help.
That's what Arbor aims to fix. The starting point is a new class of experiment: intervene, measure how the circuit responds, track the symptom, and repeat in the same individual over months. We’re building the necessary experimental platform. It currently includes the Forest 1 ultrasound system, which works like a wearable functional MRI, but with higher resolution. The system images activity across large brain volumes, including deep brain structures, and will soon stimulate as well. We are also adding electrode-based interfaces in animal studies. From these data, we'll build models to make neuromodulation predictable.
Arbor is a Focused Research Organization...
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