Description
The Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and the Garrison Institute on Aging (GIA) at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) are seeking exceptional candidates for a tenure-track advanced Assistant or Associate Professor position at the Lubbock, TX campus. We are seeking an Assistant/Associate Faculty member who is in one of the following fields, epidemiology, statistics, public health, health psychology or social psychology, and who will have an appointment in the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, but the primary responsibility is to work in the GIA. The candidate must possess a doctoral degree in one of the following fields, epidemiology, statistics, public health, health psychology or social psychology. Salary, academic rank and tenure are commensurate with experience. A comprehensive benefits package is included.
We seek candidates with strong research methodology and implementation, history of funding, excellent publication record, and publications with rural participants. Also, successful candidates will have training and/or a track record of research in the respected field. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility of serving as the principal investigator of the ongoing Project FRONTIER, a longitudinal study of adults over 40 years of age living in four rural counties, which has collected an abundance of data focusing on aging and biospecimens. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an independent research program by utilizing Project FRONTIER data for grant applications, as well as serving as a principal or co-investigator on other funded research projects by collaborating across disciplines with academic colleagues at TTUHSC. Furthermore, the successful candidate will participate in medical and graduate training, including facilitating students' ability to write up posters for conferences and manuscripts for publications.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is dedicated to education, patient care, and research, and has made an impact on the health of West Texas and beyond for almost 40 years. To date, we have trained more than 10,000 health and healthcare professionals, and we meet the health care needs of more than 2.5 million people who live throughout a vast 108 county area stretching from the Texas Panhandle south to the Permian Basin and west into Eastern New Mexico. The institution has become a leader in education and patient care and is building a top-ranked research environment with significant studies underway in areas such as aging, cancer, reproduction, genetic diseases, and rural health. TTUHSC has an excellent infrastructure with state-of-the-art core facilities (https://www.ttuhsc.edu/research/divisions/core-facilities.aspx).
Beginning in 1969 as Texas Tech University School of Medicine, today TTUHSC is an autonomous six-school university located in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Lubbock, Midland, and Odessa. TTUHSC is part of the TTU System that also includes a vibrant college of more than 40,000 students. The GIA is home to research, community outreach, and education, and brain bank divisions. The GIA is located on the TTUHSC campus in Lubbock, a city of nearly 300,000 on the South Plains of West Texas, with a family-friendly atmosphere, good schools, and a national ranking for a low cost of living and short average commute (https://visitlubbock.org). Texas Tech was recently rated the number one best University to work for by Forbes Magazine.
Applicants for the position should apply online at https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5281#jobDetails=870873-5281 requisition number 38435BR and include a curriculum vitae and a summary of expertise, and names and contact information of three references.
Questions about the position should be directed to Dr. Volker Neugebauer, Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Executive Director, Garrison Institute on Aging, at volker.neugebauer@ttuhsc.edu. For questions regarding the online application process please call TTUHSC Human Resources Recruiting, 806-743-2865.
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.
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