Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health Faculty Scholars Program

The Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health (CBMH) invites applications for the inaugural cohort of the CBMH Faculty Scholars Program, a one-year program for faculty investigators from the third year of assistant professorship through early associate professorship. In keeping with the mission of CBMH, we seek researchers whose work advances the clinical and translational neuroscience of the mind and brain. CBMH was created to connect investigators whose questions reach beyond any single condition, discipline, or method, and this program is built for a unique stage of the faculty career that is rarely supported by conventional training mechanisms: the transition from establishing a research program to leading collaborative, boundary-crossing science. We will select six to eight scholars for this first cohort, and we would be glad to have you consider joining it.

What sets CBMH apart is its attention to the connective tissue of neuroscience at Yale: the collaborations, methods, and relationships that emerge when investigators working on different conditions of the mind and brain are brought together. The Faculty Scholars Program extends that mission to the people who will carry it forward. It is designed for a moment when the skills that most shape a career, among them building and sustaining collaborations, negotiating, mentoring across disciplines, and assembling team-based funding, are seldom taught directly, and it aims to make them explicit within a community of peers navigating the same transition.

Over the one-year program, scholars will:

• join a cohort of peers at a similar stage, meeting twice monthly with CBMH directors for works-in-progress feedback and for candid sessions on the practical skills of leading collaborative science;
• take part in a one-day science communication workshop with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, along with retreats, dinners, and CBMH events that build a lasting scientific and social community;
• receive funds toward the travel and registration of a member of their laboratory to present the group's work at a scientific conference; and
• build relationships with CBMH directors and university and health-system leaders

This announcement will be followed by a town hall at 12:00 on October 6, 2026. The town hall will serve two purposes: to describe the program in greater detail and to hear directly from potential candidates about the issues that matter most at this stage of a career. The program is designed to both include set elements while preserving flexibility to accommodate what we learn from you and to reflect the needs of the community it is meant to serve.

Applications should include a CV and half-page responses to the following questions:

1. How does your current research align with and advance the CBMH mission of fostering collaborative, interdisciplinary clinical and translational neuroscience that impacts patient care, and how do you hope to contribute to it?
2. What skills do you most hope to develop, and what bold question or ambition might you pursue if you had access to new collaborations, perspectives, or approaches?
3. Describe an experience collaborating across disciplines or working closely with others. What have you learned from that experience, and what support, mentorship or community would help you most at this stage of your career?

Please also include one letter of support from a mentor or peer speaking to your fit for a program built on team science and inclusive collaboration.

Please confirm your commitment to prioritize in-person attendance at twice-monthly meetings and CBMH events.

Please submit applications by October 30, 2026, to cbmh@yale.edu.