Assistant Professor
The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR position. We are seeking outstanding scholars with a doctoral degree (Ph.D., and/or M.D.) and relevant postdoctoral experience, who show exceptional research potential in areas including, but not limited to, quantitative biology, computational biology, and systems biology. This position is one of five junior faculty positions to be hired at the university as part of an Interdisciplinary Junior Faculty Cluster in Multiscale Cell Mechanics.
The Interdisciplinary Cluster in Multiscale Cell Mechanics is part of an initiative by the Provost’s Office at the University of Michigan to create 100 new tenure-track positions for junior faculty members whose research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary. More information about the Provost’s Initiative is available here.
The initiative in Multiscale Cell Mechanics involves five departments spread across the schools and colleges of the University of Michigan – Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, and Cell & Developmental Biology. The goal of this interdisciplinary research initiative is to develop a quantitative understanding of how the molecules in living cells interact to generate the complex patterns, responses, and signaling pathways that characterize living cells, and therefore tissues. Beyond the elementary importance of this question to fundamental biology, such knowledge is essential for a rational treatment of many diseases including, for example, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, viral infections, and metabolic diseases. More information about the initiative in Multiscale Cell Mechanics including links to the other departments is available.
New faculty will be expected to develop an independent research program that will address fundamental issues in quantitative cell and/or developmental biology, to teach in graduate courses affiliated with the department, and to contribute to the formation and success of an interdisciplinary research core in Multiscale Cell Mechanics at the university. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three reprints, a statement of research plans, and three letters of reference. Applications should be received by November 1, 2009. The application for this position is available here.