"Open Rank Tenure Track or Tenured Faculty Positions in Cancer Research"

Open Rank Tenure Track or Tenured Faculty Positions in Cancer Research

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech (VT) is recruiting to fill several tenured/tenure-track faculty position at any rank in cancer research. These new faculty positions represents part of a major research initiative by VT located at both our main medical center campus in Roanoke (https://hst.vt.edu/campus.html) as well as our facility at the Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus in Washington DC (CNRIC - https://map.concept3d.com/?id=1353#!bm/?ce/40016?ct/40015?s/) of the Children’s National Hospital (CNH - https://www.childrensnational.org/).  The faculty members will be part of Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (FBRI - https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/) Cancer Research Centers.

Applicants should have an earned doctorate (PhD, MD and/or DVM), postdoctoral research experience, a record of accomplishment of research productivity through high quality publications and a record of successful extramural funding commensurate with the seniority level for which they are applying.  The new faculty members will join thirteen teams of VT cancer researchers already in place at the FBRI cancer research centers in Roanoke and Washington DC as well as additional cancer researchers from across the Virginia Tech campus and at the Children’s National Hospital. The successful candidates will primarily be expected to maintain a high-quality, extramurally-funded cancer research program. They will also have the opportunity to participate in some teaching of graduate students and to serve as a research mentor for VT graduate, medical and undergraduate students. Competitive salaries, space, and start-up packages will be provided.

Applicants with particular expertise and emphasis in cell and gene therapies whether using experimental laboratory approaches and/or computational modeling and informatics approaches are of particular interest for these searches.

The FBRI is located in Roanoke, Virginia on the Virginia Tech Health Sciences and Technology (HS&T) campus with over 300,000 square feet of research space and a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities and in Washington, DC at the Children’s National Research and Innovation campus (CNRIC) ate the site of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in a newly renovated research building with advanced facilities, including adjacent teams of researchers from CNH’s genetic medicine research center and rare disease institute.

Please submit your application to posting #534757 including full curriculum vitae, detailed statement of research accomplishments and plans and teaching/mentoring philosophy.  To complete the application, the applicant should also have at least three references post their letters of support to the same site. Review of applications will begin on January 6th, 2026.

Link to job posting: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/534757/open-rank-tenure-track-or-tenured-faculty-positions-in-cancer-research

Inquiries about the position should be directed to either the director of the FBRI’s Cancer Research Centers in Roanoke (Dr. Jennifer Munson @ munsonj@vtc.vt.edu) or in Washington DC, (Dr. Chris Hourigan @hourigan@vtc.vt.edu ) or to the Executive Director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Dr. Michael Friedlander @ friedlan@vtc.vt.edu