Research Assistant Professor - Surgery, Surgical Oncology

Assistant Professor – Research (tenure earning)

Department of Surgery – Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

The incumbent will ideally have research experience in pancreatic cancer. The Assistant Professor will manage research projects related to targeting organ-specific interplay of genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironmental factors in metastatic tumors. 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 Surgery, Cancer Center members, and perhaps other departments throughout UM, to advance research, knowledge, training, and education.

• Reporting to the Division Director and/or Dpt Chair, the incumbent will conduct, collaborate and manage scientific research and investigations
• Participate in the management of the daily operations of his/her research laboratory
• Conduct regular lab or research team meetings
• 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
• Collect and analyze data
• Write and submit scientific papers and abstracts, as well as submit grant proposals
• Present ongoing work and findings to colleagues and at academic/research conferences
• Participate in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Junior Development Program

Faculty members in the Department of Public Health Sciences will need to meet the following requirements:

• Ph.D. in biological and biomedical science and/or equivalent area
• 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.