Tenure-track faculty position; Wilmot Cancer Institute

Apr 17, 2024

$100,000 - $225,000 - negotiations beyond this range possible for more senior applicants

• Opportunities for leadership responsibility within the Wilmot Cancer Institute and the URCC NCORP Research Base (as appropriate for experience).
• Interact with basic, translational, and clinical scientists across all research programs within the WCI.
• Maintain an innovative, independent, collaborative and extramurally-funded research program and participate fully in CPC Program meetings and activities.
• Work in partnership with more than 30 highly-collaborative faculty and trainees conducting cancer prevention, cancer control and cancer care delivery research across 4 schools and 15 departments.
• Access to all WCI shared resources including:
  1) the biostatistics and bioinformatics resource,
  2) the clinical trials office and infrastructure,
  3) the genomics research center,
  4) a tissue bio-specimen repository,
  5) the human biophysiology resource for behavioral intervention design and delivery, physical activity and functional assessments, patient-reported outcome assessments, and molecular biological assessments, and
  6) the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement.

In addition to connection in a highly collaborative community of investigators, members of the CPC Program and WCI have access to four extremely valuable resources:

• University of Rochester Cancer Center NCI Community Oncology Research Program (URCC NCORP) Research Base (MPIs Mustian and Morrow): WCI is home to one of only two NCI-funded NCORP Research Bases in the United States in an Academic Medical Center.
  
  The URCC NCORP Research Base is a legacy Research base with a long and sustained track record of funding, success and growth; URCC is one of the original Research Bases that were funded within the NCI Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) in 1983—the predecessor to today’s NCORP.The URCC NCORP Research Base is a research hub for investigators where they can utilize a network of >25 NCI-funded community-based NCORP affiliates across the United States, which includes more than 700 geographically different community-based oncology practices and a highly-efficient infrastructure for clinical trial recruitment across the U.S.This resource provides unique sources of collegial support, scientific expertise, and infrastructure to aid with development of scientific ideas and grants, as well as, the conduct of studies within the regional WCI catchment area and the national NCORP catchment area.
• Center for Research on Flavored Tobacco Products (CRoFT; WCI MPIs Rahmen, Ossip and McIntosh): WCI is one of select few cancer centers in the U.S. with a Tobacco Center for Regulatory Research.
  
  Our recently funded center, is a collaborative center with Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
  
  CRoFT foci include four main areas:
  1) assessing flavor and toxicity ,
  2) characterizing flavors and their impact on behavior ,
  3) determining respiratory health effects of flavors , and
  4) evaluating the effects of product marketing .This center also provides CPC investigators with access to unique cores and pilot funding.
• Clinical and Translational Cancer Control Research Training Program (CCRTP; MPIs Janelsins and Morrow): The WCI CCRTP provides PhD and MD trainees with the tools and experiences necessary to establish careers as outstanding independent investigators in clinical and translational cancer control research.
  
  Our trainees produced 145 unique manuscripts, obtained several prestigious research awards, and earned $4.1 million in research funding.
  
  To date, 29 of the 31 trainees who completed…