Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

The PHAST Department in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position available immediately to conduct research in the areas of substance use disorders, neurotoxicology, or pharmacology of neurodegenerative diseases.

The PHAST Department at UTHSC has continuously increased its level of extramural funding within the last decade. The candidates will join a very strong core of PHAST scientists devoted to investigating varied aspects of substance use disorders, neurotoxicology, and neurodegenerative disease (http://www.uthsc.edu/pharmacology).

UTHSC offers a generous start up package, and our Institution includes several core facilities, such as the Lab Animal Care Unit, the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, the Molecular Resource Center, the Flow Cytometry and Flow Sorting core, the Molecular Bioinformatics Core, the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core, the Imaging Core, which houses a super-resolution microscopy unit, the Research Histology Core, a new Structural Biology core with access to several outside core facilities and national labs, and free access to the ISAAC-NG high-performance computing clusters at the University of Tennessee. Furthermore, the PHAST Department sustains common facilities in laser confocal microscopy, laser capture microscopy, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, and high-throughput robotic electrophysiology.

Candidates will be considered at the rank of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. Applicants should demonstrate ability to secure external funding for their research. Candidates employing innovative methodologies in their research program are especially encouraged to apply, e.g., microfluidics-organoids, in vivo/high-resolution imaging, AFM, computational neuroscience, large-scale neuronal ensemble electrophysiological recording, novel viral and genetic strategies for targeting and manipulating cells of the nervous system.

Applicants should submit a one-page cover letter, CV, a summary of research interests and plans (3 pages), and names of three references as a single PDF file to Professor Anna Bukiya, Search Committee Chair, to abukiya@uthsc.edu. Please include PHAST26 in the subject line.