Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track) - Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School

Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas

Category: Faculty

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Requisition #: 2400028L

The Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical SchoolatUTHealth Houstoninvites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor. We are interested in applicants using multidisciplinary approaches in the broad areas of drug discovery and pharmacology, systems biology, and/or metabolism of human diseases. Candidates will be expected to have a strong record of research accomplishments and an innovative plan for their future research.Highly qualified applicants with substantial extramural funding and teaching/mentoring experience may also be considered for an Associate Professor position.

The Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology is initiating a new growth phase to build upon its existing strengths ranging from basic membrane biology and molecular pharmacology to whole animal pathophysiology. The department houses a Nikon Center of Excellence Imaging Facility with the latest advances in microscopy instrumentation, while many additional core facilities are available within the medical school. The most competitive candidates will bring complementary expertise or new technology to a highly interactive department. Further details about departmental resources, ongoing research programs, and NIH-funded graduate training programs in drug discovery are available on our website (med.uth.edu/ibp / ).

McGovern Medical School is part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) and is located within the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical center in the world and includes the Texas Therapeutics Institute and the new TMC 3 infrastructure dedicated to diagnostic and drug discoveries. We are committed to our faculty's success and will provide an attractive start-up package, competitive salary, generous benefits, and administrative and mentoring resources.

Position Key Accountabilities:

Responsibilities include the development of an extramurally funded, internationally recognized research program and active participation in medical and graduate education.

Qualifications:

• PhD or MD/PhD degree

• 4 years or more of additional research experience.

Qualified applicants must demonstrate a commitment to excellence, discovery, and service, have the potential to be outstanding in their field of expertise, and share an interest in fulfilling the common goals of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Please submit a cover letter, full curriculum vitae, and description of future research plans.

At least three reference letters should be sent separately (email is preferred) to ms.ibp.applicants@uth.tmc.edu or IBP Faculty Search Committee c/o Ms. Brooke Hern, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 4.098B, Houston, TX 77030 .

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until positions are filled.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.

UTHealth Benefits

UTHealth Houston offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. For more information on our benefits programs please refer to the UTHealth Houston Office of Benefits Website.

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Work location is based on the needs of the department and may be adjusted.