Tenure Track Faculty in Tumor Virology

Job Summary:

The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research is searching for two faculty candidates at the tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor level whose research is focused on understanding how viruses cause human cancer through basic research on mechanisms by which viruses alter the host cells they infect to persist and cause cancer. Human viruses cause approximately 15% of human cancers. Knowledge gained through their study impacts not only our understanding of virally caused cancers but also other cancers. Successful candidates should demonstrate a proven record of studying one or more tumor viruses and demonstrate that they have the potential to establish a productive, extramurally funded research program. Successful candidates also need to describe how they will contribute to mentoring and teaching undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as this is fundamental to our academic mission. Successful candidates will also be expected to participate in professional, university, and community service appropriate to rank. The new hires for these positions will move into an extremely strong, supportive research environment. Our institution has a large number of virologists, including many tumor virologists, who are highly interactive and collaborative. We are looking for candidates who will interact productively with these and other faculty in this highly collegial and collative academic environment. One of the two successful candidates hired from this search will be selected to become a UW-Madison faculty member and also an investigator of the Morgridge Institute for Research ([https://morgridge.org][1]) , providing many synergistic benefits.

SMPH is committed to being a diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist workplace and is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidates will be expected to develop an extramurally funded research program and to mentor and teach undergraduate/graduate/medical students and postdocs.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: [Diversity and Inclusion][2]

Education:

Required
Terminal Degree
M.D. required.

Qualifications:

3 years minimum post-doctoral experience in tumor virology is preferred.

Candidates should display a productive record of established scholarship of national and international significance in tumor virus biology. Areas of particular interest to this search include but are not limited to understanding how human tumor viruses cause cancer, links between viruses and antiviral defenses including intrinsic, innate, or adaptive immunity, and the use of in vitro and/or in vivo models for studying human tumor viruses.

[1]: https://morgridge.org [2]: http://diversity.wisc.edu