Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular at University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Faculty Position in Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine

University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Children's Texas

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health)and Shriners Children's Texas,Galveston, TX, seeks an outstanding faculty candidate with expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, and/or mechanobiology with an emphasis in musculoskeletal systems for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Candidates with an interest and experience in translational regenerative research are especially encouraged to apply. Primary appointment is foreseen to be in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (http://www.bmb.utmb.edu) with secondary appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation (https://www.utmb.edu/ortho). The ideal candidate, who will be housed within Shriners Children's Texas Research Center on the UTMB campus (https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/locations/texas), will have a track record in terms of research experience, publications, and scholarship. Research funding opportunities and other support through Shriners Children's will be available. We are seeking candidates that seek to bridge basic and translational research and with a keen interest in developing therapeutics for musculoskeletal-related disorders.

The candidates should be energized by opportunities to interact with outstanding biomedical researchers in a highly collaborative biomedical research community and to become outstanding mentors to students and postdoctoral fellows. Rich opportunities exist at UTMB for interactions and affiliations with centers and institutes of scientific excellence in structural biology and molecular biophysics, biodefense, molecular medicine, cancer biology, infectious diseases, environmental health, aging, metabolic health, mechanomedicine, translational sciences including a NIH CTSA-funded Institute for Translational Science (http://www.utmb.edu/centers). In addition to a highly collaborative environment, UTMB offers outstanding core services, including: next-generation sequencing, organic synthesis, mass spectrometry (proteomics, metabolomics), optical microscopy, flow cytometry, protein expression and purification, molecular biology, solution biophysics, NMR, X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, bioinformatics, and computational chemistry (see http://www.utmb.edu/core).

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) is a major academic health sciences center located on the Texas Gulf Coast. Galveston has a mild, sub-tropical climate with outstanding recreational opportunities. The School of Medicine has been consistently ranked in the top 50 for NIH-funding. Shriners Children's Texas is a 30-bed non-profit pediatric hospital, research, and teaching center located on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. This facility, which treats burns, orthopaedic condition, cerebral palsy, and cleft lip and palate, is part of a 22-hospital system, and it is one of only two Shriner's Hospitals that offer burn and orthopaedic care. It also contains an intensive care unit and a reconstruction and plastic surgery capabilities. along with a motion analysis center, rehabilitation department, and robust research capabilities to include 13,000 square feet of laboratory space. Very attractive recruitment packages of salary, start-up funding, and newly renovated space will be offered. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research interests and future goals (maximum of 3 pages), and contact information for three references to: Shirvonne Pope, sapope@utmb.edu.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
The ideal candidate, who will be housed within Shriners Children's Texas Research Center on the UTMB campus will have a track record in terms of research experience, publications, and scholarship

SALARY:
Commensurate with experience

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