The Department of Biomedical Sciences has open positions for 2 faculty members at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenure-eligible Associate Professor. The successful candidates will have a key role in serving to expand our translational science or clinical research program by adding research strengths in problems of relevance to rural and medically underserved health conditions. Candidates must have expertise in research areas relevant to rural health including addiction, mental health, neurodegeneration, maternal fetal health, neonatal health, and diabetes. Candidates with expertise or demonstrated potential for broad areas of relevance to basic and/or translational research are invited to apply. Expertise in 'Omics' with emphasis on proteomics to collaborate with our new state-of-the-art NIH-supported proteomics core is a benefit but not required. Candidates may have other additional synergistic research foci including but not limited to, behavioral/cognitive neuroscience, infectious disease, artificial intelligence/big data analyses. Primary responsibilities include maintaining an active extramurally funded research program, mentoring the research projects of graduate and undergraduate health sciences and professional students, residents, and fellows. The successful applicants will be expected to work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment. Successful experience or demonstrated potential for teaching research methodology or mentoring research projects, basic science topics and in obtaining extramural research funding is desired. The anticipated initial distribution of workload will be 70% Research, 20% teaching, 10% service until the candidate has established their research program. Workload may be adjusted due to rank and current sustainable research projects. Tenure-eligible candidates that garner sufficient extramural funding can increase their research workload. Workload duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: Teaching duties include research methodology for health professions, statistics, bioinformatics, 'Omics', microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, neuroscience, immunology. Mentoring the research projects of residents, medical and graduate students; mentoring graduate level journal clubs. Teaching duties will be assigned based on the expertise and areas of interest to the faculty member. Service includes serving on department, School of Medicine, or university committees and/or student support. Examples include Faculty Meeting Committee, Student Research Committee, Research Advisory Committee, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, medical, physician assistant interviewing committee.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Industry
Educational Services
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees