Assistant or Associate Professor Position

Summary: 

The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) Research Institute Health and Wellness Center (RIHWC) is accepting applications for scientists or clinician scientists for a faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level in the Center for Oncology Research. The Center for Oncology Research is part of a new expansive multidisciplinary research center with state-of-the-art instrumentation, generous new open concept lab space, and a new vivarium with small animal MRI and CT-PET imaging. Applicants should have innovative research focused in areas such as tumor antigen discovery, molecular mechanisms of cancer development and progression, immunobiology of cancer, or metabolomics of cancer. Applicants should be highly collaborative and be able to function as part of a multidisciplinary team. Excellence in research, scholarship, and teaching should be evident. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

  • Ability to develop and expand novel biomedical research. 
  • Ability to teach osteopathic medical school courses relevant to the applicant’s research area.
  • Ability to mentor students, postdoctoral associates, and junior faculty. 
  • Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Oncology, the ACHE Vice President of Research or their designee. 

Qualifications and Credentials:

Education-

  • MD, DO, PhD, DO/PhD or MD PhD.
  • Three years postdoctoral experience for the Assistant Professor level. 
  • Track record of external funding submissions and scientific accomplishments for the Assistant Professor level. 

Minimum Qualifications-

  • Completion of an MD, DO, PhD, DO/PhD or MD/PhD in the field of biomedical sciences. 
  • Experience in teaching graduate or medical students. 
  • Minimum of three years of post-doctoral experience. 
  • Continuous publication record in peer-reviewed journals with significant first or lead author designation. 

Preferred Qualifications-

  • Track record of successful extramural funding 
  • Established national or international reputation for Associate Professor level. 
  • Scientific expertise in one or more of the following areas: experimental therapeutic development, cancer biomarkers, proteomics, and immunology.

 

Excellent salary and start-up funds are available. Applications should include a cover letter, a current CV, 3 page description of prior research and planned future research, and the names and contact information for 3 references to [email protected].

 

Posted Sept 16, 2024