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Posted:	11/5/2012
Job Title:	Open Rank Tenure-Eligible Faculty Position in Neuroscience
Employer:	University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
Description:	The Department of Basic Medical Sciences, at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, invites applications for a tenure-eligible faculty position in Neuroscience. We are particularly interested in individuals who can contribute to the development of an Initiative in Stress Biology and who use contemporary molecular, cellular, behavioral or anatomical approaches to investigate the following areas: 1. Neurobiology of stress: Neural regulation of neuroendocrine or autonomic responses to the environment, cellular stress responses, homeostasis and/or stress-related behaviors and neuropathology. 2. Neuroimmune interactions: Role of the immune system in modulating nervous system function and neurological disease, and/or neural regulation of immune function and signaling, including the effect of biological stressors. 3. Developmental neurobiology: Fetal antecedents of adult neurological disorders including genetic and epigenetic effects on brain development and roles in programming adult disease states, including stress-related neurological disorders such as drug abuse, anxiety, depression and schizophrenia.
Requirements:	The successful candidate is expected to synergize/collaborate with existing faculty working in the broad areas of microbial pathogenesis and immunology, stress and gene-environment interactions, bone and skin biology, cardiovascular biology, hormone and steroid biology, obesity and metabolism and cancer biology. The successful candidate will receive a competitive start-up package and salary support. Faculty members also have outstanding opportunities to collaborate with existing investigators in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, the Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine and affiliate institutions including Phoenix Children's Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital/Barrow Neurological Institute, the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium. The individual recruited into this position will be expected to support the educational mission by teaching in the medical school curriculum and in a developing graduate program. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. and/or M.D. (or equivalent) and post-doctoral training in the proposed field of study. This is an open-rank search but preference will be given to applicants with outstanding scholarly accomplishments and active extramurally funded research programs. Preference will also be given to candidates who can contribute to programmatic funding goals.
Contact:	Application material should include a cover letter that describes the applicants interest in one of the targeted research areas, CV, a description of past research accomplishments and a detailed plan of proposed research as well as the names and contact information for three individuals who may be contacted for letters of recommendation. To apply please go to our website. Job Number 51085. Applications will be reviewed starting 10 December 2012. Informal inquires may be directed to Dr. Robert Handa or Dr. Paul E. Boehmer, Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences.