Tenure Track Faculty in Tumor Virology

Job Summary:

The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), is searching for a full-time tumor virology faculty position at the tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor level. We are seeking exceptional candidates whose research is focused on understanding how viruses cause human cancer, using basic, mechanistic studies of how viruses interact with their host cells to infect, persist and induce cancer.

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. 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. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in professional, university, and community service appropriate to rank. The new hire for this position will move into an extremely strong, supportive research environment with an unusually large, highly interactive and collaborative community of virologists. This includes many tumor virologists, a priority area already bolstered by several recent hires. These tumor virologists also participate in and benefit from the Human Cancer Virology Program within the University's NCI-designated comprehensive Carbone Cancer Center ([https://cancer.wisc.edu/][1]), and from our partnerships with the UW Institute for Molecular Virology ([https://virology.wisc.edu/][2]), the private Morgridge Institute for Research ([https://morgridge.org/][3]), and other campus units. We are looking for candidates who will interact productively with these and other faculty in this highly collegial and collative academic environment.

Responsibilities:

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

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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://cancer.wisc.edu/ [2]: https://virology.wisc.edu/ [3]: https://morgridge.org/ [4]: http://diversity.wisc.edu