Faculty Position Clinical Cancer Research- Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech • Roanoke, VA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Virginia Tech seeks an innovative clinician-scientist leader for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the associate or full professor level in the Patient Research Center (PRC) at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. The PRC is launching with substantial state Biomedical Research Diamond funding, including clinical research support teams and facilities. The successful candidate will lead an extramurally funded, leading-edge clinical cancer research program, devote some time to patient care with clinical partner Carilion Clinic, and mentor graduate and medical students and fellows. The role may also include a translational laboratory-based research program. The faculty member will join a growing community of scholars studying next-generation approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, with research interests potentially spanning blood, brain, gastrointestinal, lung, breast, and bone cancers. The position is based at the FBRI on Virginia Tech’s Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, Virginia, and includes a tenured or tenure-track appointment in an appropriate Virginia Tech department, potentially including the School of Medicine. The institute has more than 300,000 square feet of laboratory, core facility, and office space, along with human-subject research-dedicated 3.0T MRIs, high-field MR-guided PET for animal research, MR-guided focused ultrasound for cancer treatment, cellular and molecular imaging facilities, transcriptomics and genomics analysis, and a molecular oncology diagnostics laboratory. Applications should be submitted to posting #538363 with a full curriculum vitae and statements of research accomplishments and plans. The successful candidate must complete a criminal conviction check.

Requirements

• M.D. degree and an active medical license.
• An active research program funded through federal agencies and/or industry for human-patient-based clinical research.
• Appropriate postdoctoral residency-fellowship training.
• Appointment is at the associate or full professor level.

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. degree.
• A translational laboratory-based research program.
• Experience using innovative contemporary approaches to study cancer in patients, including prevention, predictive analytics, diagnostics, therapeutics, or clinical research trials.

Responsibilities

• Lead a strong, extramurally funded, leading-edge clinical research program in cancer research.
• Devote some time to patient care responsibilities with clinical partner Carilion Clinic.
• Mentor graduate and medical students as well as fellows.
• Develop or continue clinical cancer research using contemporary approaches such as prevention, predictive analytics, diagnostics, therapeutics, and clinical research trials.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree