The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) together with the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), are recruiting for an Animal Program Director to direct the AAALAC accredited Animal Care Programs within their Intramural Research Programs (IRP). The position is also that of a Staff Scientist/Facility Head, directly employed by the Federal Government. Research supported by the Animal Care Program focuses on three core areas: (1) fundamental brain mechanisms related to cognition and behavior, and novel means of manipulating those mechanisms and associated brain circuitry to advance understanding of and treatments for psychiatric disorders; (2) mechanisms of ocular congenital, degenerative, and inflammatory d