"2 Positions: Assistant or Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Tenure-Eligible / Umkc School of Medicine"

Job Description

The Department of Biomedical Sciences has open positions for 2 faculty members at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenure-eligible Associate Professor. The successful candidates will have a key role in expanding our translational science or clinical research program by adding research strengths in problems relevant to rural and medically underserved health conditions.

Candidates must have expertise in research areas relevant to rural health including addiction, mental health, neurodegeneration, maternal fetal health, neonatal health, and diabetes. Candidates with expertise or demonstrated potential for broad areas of relevance to basic and/or translational research are invited to apply. Expertise in "Omics" with emphasis on proteomics to collaborate with our new state-of-the-art NIH-supported proteomics core is a benefit but not required. Candidates may have other additional synergistic research foci including but not limited to, behavioral/cognitive neuroscience, infectious disease, artificial intelligence/big data analyses.

Primary responsibilities include maintaining an active extramurally funded research program, mentoring the research projects of graduate and undergraduate health sciences and professional students, residents, and fellows. The successful applicants will be expected to work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment. Successful experience or demonstrated potential for teaching research methodology or mentoring research projects, basic science topics and in obtaining extramural research funding is desired.

The anticipated initial distribution of workload will be 70% Research, 20% teaching, 10% service until the candidate has established their research program. Workload may be adjusted due to rank and current sustainable research projects. Tenure-eligible candidates that garner sufficient extramural funding can increase their research workload. Workload duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Teaching duties include research methodology for health professions, statistics, bioinformatics, "Omics", microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, neuroscience, immunology.
• Mentoring the research projects of residents, medical and graduate students; mentoring graduate level journal clubs.
• Teaching duties will be assigned based on the expertise and areas of interest to the faculty member.
• Service includes serving on department, School of Medicine, or university committees and/or student support. Examples include Faculty Meeting Committee, Student Research Committee, Research Advisory Committee, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, medical, physician assistant interviewing committee.

Qualifications

M.D. or Ph.D. or MD/PhD disciplines relative to the job description. To be considered for an Associate Professor rank, applicants must provide demonstrated accomplishment in externally funded research, an externally recognized professional reputation in your research area as evidenced by peer reviewed publications, presentations at national and international meetings, invitations to serve on grant review or program review committees, successful record of teaching, and a history of service to the medical profession and/or a prior university community.

Anticipated Hiring Range

Salary will be commensurate with rank, credentials, experience, and evidence of success in obtaining external research funding. These are ranked 12-month, full-time benefit-eligible tenure-track or tenure-eligible faculty appointments (1.0 FTE) with opportunity for promotion. Our academic schedules and workloads provide for a positive work/life balance.

Application Materials

To be considered, you must apply online at www.umkc.edu/jobs, click in Academic Positions (Job Opening ID 56990). Please combine all application materials (personal letter of interest and applicable experience with accompanying curriculum vitae and a current list of professional references) into one PDF or Microsoft Word document and upload as your resume attachments. Limit document name to 50 characters and do not include any special characters (e.g., /, &, %, etc.). If you are experiencing technical problems during application, please email umpshrsupport@umsystem.edu. For questions about the position, please contact umkcfacultysearch@umkc.edu including the Job Identification number 56990 and name of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be requested during the application and recruitment process. If you need an accommodation, please contact the Office of Affirmative Action at (816) 235-1323.

Application Deadline

Review of applications begins upon receipt. Positions will remain open until qualified candidates are hired.