Clinical Research Assistant

General Summary

Research Assistant position available to study the central and peripheral nervous system mechanisms in patients that occur with chronic ocular pain and in concussion. This position has a June 2026 start date.

Join Eric Moulton, OD PhD and The Brain and Eye Pain Imaging Lab in Boston Children’s Hospital. This is a multi-disciplinary clinical research lab that incorporates neuroscience, neuroimaging, pain-related physiology, ophthalmology, and patient-outcomes research. Our research is conducted solely on human volunteers and patients, and our tools include functional magnetic resonance imaging, in vivo corneal microscopy, psychophysics, and psychological surveys.

This position is funded by two multi-year projects:
1) a multi-center NIH grant on chronic eye pain in collaboration with clinician researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the University of Miami.
2) an NIH grant on concussion in collaboration ...