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Job Description Summary

The Assistant Professor will run an independent research program, manage research projects, and will supervise research projects of interns, undergraduate or graduate students. The Assistant Professor may lecture or conduct demonstrations and teach across UM schools. The Assistant Professor will partner and collaborate with other faculty in the Department of Urology, and perhaps other departments throughout UM, to advance knowledge, training, and education.

This faculty position will be in the Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC). The DSUI scientific program is focused on basic and translational investigation of prostate, kidney and bladder cancer. Specific current areas of investigation include:

• Metabolic and genetic changes required for hormone therapy resistance in prostate and breast cancers

• Discovery of entirely new mechanisms of endocrine physiology and regulation

• Clinical validation in patients and clinical trials using innovative approaches

• Animal models of advanced cancer for translational and therapeutic studies

• Identifying targets for the development of new pharmacologic therapies

• Drug discovery for new therapies

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Urology, the incumbent will conduct, collaborate and manage scientific research and investigations.

• Appointee will contribute to basic and applied research activities, participate in the publication of significant results, and advance their expertise through education training and/or research experience.

• Supervise, mentor and manage postdoctoral fellows as well as graduate students engaged in collaborative research projects

• Explore and develop appropriate research collaborations both within the Department, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and outside of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine departments and schools

• Write and submit scientific papers and abstracts, as well as submit grant proposals

• Presents ongoing work and findings to colleagues and at academic/research conferences. May present at national and international meetings

• Analyze and summarize data in original manuscripts, reviews, book chapters, and/or editorials

• Participates in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Junior Development Program

• May participates in the management of the daily operations of his/her lab, and conduct regular lab meetings

Qualifications

Faculty members in the Department of Urology will need to meet the following requirements:

Requirements (essential)

• Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Chemistry or Molecular Biology and have appropriate expertise in discovery of molecular, biochemical or chemical mechanisms.

• Demonstrated knowledge and application of scientific techniques

• Some experience in running a lab, funded research projects, and/or supervising post-docs

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work with diverse constituency

• Computer literacy

• Completion of successful academic and research work that has resulted in authorship and/or co-authorship of papers in peer reviewed journals while serving as a faculty, and/or as a scientist.

• Demonstrates ability to develop collaborative research projects in a manner consistent with the mentor’s research plan and contribute towards the making of scientific advances in the field of work.

• Demonstrates ability to teach in the laboratory setting and/or through presentations of papers and/or seminars.

• Successful track of research projects/funds and contribution to grant applications that are collaborative in nature and/or demonstrated ability to write competitive grants independently.

• Demonstrates desire to move towards scientific independence through submission of grant applications, development of independent research projects, or, collaborate with scientists other than the primary mentor with whom the scientist works.

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  Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Faculty

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