Assistant or Associate Professor; Tenured or Tenure-Track

Position: Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenured or Tenure-Track)
Position Details

Position Information

Recruitment/Posting Title Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenured or Tenure-Track) Department RWJ - Neuroscience & Cell Biol Salary Details A minimum of $114622 Offer Information

The final salary offer may be determined by several factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks, if and when appropriate, and internal equity to ensure fair compensation relative to the university's broader compensation structure. We are committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.

Benefits

Rutgers provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. The specific benefits vary based on the position and may include:

* Medical, prescription drug, and dental coverage

* Paid vacation, holidays, and various leave programs

* Competitive retirement benefits, including defined contribution plans and voluntary tax-deferred savings options

* Employee and dependent educational benefits (when applicable)

* Life insurance coverage

* Employee discount programs

Posting Summary

The Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), the Rutgers Child Health Institute (CHI), and the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) seek applications for tenured or tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to fill multiple new faculty positions. We are seeking outstanding, creative scientists with expertise and interests in diverse disciplines to join our department and centers.

Candidates that study neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, and the role of neurons and glia in the healthy and diseased brain using molecular, cellular or circuit approaches are of particular interest.

Rutgers is located at the center of the Northeast corridor, with access to New York, Philadelphia, and the New Jersey shore within an hour. The region is home to world-class universities, numerous pharmaceutical and biotech research facilities, and corporate headquarters. Piscataway and the surrounding areas in Central New Jersey offer vibrant and diverse cultural activities, excellent public and private schools, and opportunities to live in urban, suburban, or small town settings within a short distance of campus.

The medical school is home to a large group of interactive and collegial faculty with federally funded research programs in broad areas of biomedical science. The basic science departments are well integrated into a large, highly collaborative research community across the schools and departments of Rutgers University with multiple centers of excellence. Medical school faculty have access to interdisciplinary, Ph.D.

-level graduate training programs and outstanding core facilities including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genome editing, confocal microscopy, human neuroimaging, and cryo-EM among others. Rutgers is also affiliated with the largest university-spinoff biorepository and is home to the Protein Data Bank.

Research in the Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology includes the molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, and the role of neurons and glia in the healthy and diseased brain. Interests exist in both basic and translational research. Approaches include genetics, state-of-the-art imaging, electrophysiology, omics, behavioral analyses, and computational modeling.

With over 300 Rutgers neuroscience faculty laboratories engaged in basic and clinical research, and proximity to New York, Princeton and Philadelphia neuroscience communities, the Brain Health Institute offers tremendous collaborative opportunities and core facilities to support and grow an active research program. The BHI has identified four focus areas of outstanding strength in neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, motivational and affective neuroscience, and cognitive and sensory neuroscience within Rutgers that are primed for further development.

BHI has created new Centers of Excellence to further grow basic, clinical, and translational research in each focus area. The NIH-funded CTSA at Rutgers offers unique opportunities to speed the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care. Outstanding core facilities will support this position, including a new research-dedicated 3T Prisma MRI scanner, a human behavioral testing core and a gene editing core.

The Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), part of RWJMS, is a multidisciplinary institute focused on research dedicated to improving child health with a focus on the mechanisms underlying children's diseases. The CHINJ is located in a 150,000 sq. ft. research and pediatric clinical facility on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers. CHINJ scientists study a range of topics in neuroscience and immunology.

These include genetics and synaptic and neural circuit functions in…