Assistant​/Associate​/Professor in Biomedical Imaging

Assistant/Associate/Professor in Biomedical Imaging

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The University of Utah seeks candidates who can be world-class leaders in Biomedical Imaging to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor opening. Exceptional candidates will also be considered at other ranks. This is a collaborative faculty search among the Department of Biomedical Engineering within the College of Engineering and the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences within the School of Medicine. Candidates are anticipated to have a primary appointment in an engineering department with a secondary or adjunct appointment in a medical department.

General areas of interest include Biomedical Imaging Hardware Development as well as Biomedical Signal and Image Processing of all Biomedical imaging modalities. Specific areas of high interest include Image Guided Therapy and Interventions, as well as AI and Computational Imaging. The applicant is anticipated to have a secondary or adjunct appointment in the Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research (UCAIR), which is composed of 17 PhD faculty and numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Radiology & Imaging Sciences Department.

Many of the UCAIR faculty perform MRI research, while others investigate CT and molecular imaging. Ultrasound, interventional techniques, and neuromodulation are also current research topics. The medical imaging researchers at Utah work closely with a number of radiologists, physicians, engineers, and scientists in other departments, and seek to have real-world impact. Candidates may also interface with the Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute, which facilitates multidisciplinary collaborations across imaging, visualization, high-performance computing, simulation, and data science.

We seek candidates who align with and will strengthen these core pillars.

The University of Utah is a tier-one research institution with extramural research exceeding $600 million/year over the last 5 years. The medical and engineering complexes are adjacent to each other, providing unique opportunities for imaging development and validation. The University of Utah has also been consistently ranked as one of the top schools for startup creation, with dedicated space, administrative resources, and venture capital to support academic spinoff companies.

University of Utah Health also routinely supports large clinical trials from major medical device companies. Salt Lake City is an economic hub of the Mountain West, home to many Fortune 500 companies.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Utah is one of the oldest Ph.D.

-granting programs in the world and is currently home to nearly 200 graduate students. The Bachelor of Science BME degree program is ABET-accredited (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and graduates approximately 90 undergraduate students each year. The BME department is home to 23 tenure-track faculty, 5 research faculty, and 94 adjunct faculty. All tenure-track faculty in the Department are engaged in extramurally funded research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, and service.

The University of Utah Health Medical Center (UUMC) is the only major academic healthcare system in the Intermountain West, serving individuals from Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, southern Idaho, northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and western Colorado. Accordingly, UUMC serves over 10% of the healthcare needs of the continental US and provides care for a diverse patient population. UUMC is ranked in the top 40 for research among US academic medical centers.

This setting is robust in offering patient care, medical education, and health research. The Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences operates the Utah MRI Research Center (UMRC) that includes four MRI scanners (one 0.55T, and three 3T scanners). A 7T scanner will be arriving at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI) at the University of Utah in 2027. Research is also performed using state-of-the-art PET and CT and ultrasound scanners.

The University of Utah campus is nestled in the beautiful Wasatch Mountain foothills of Salt Lake City (SLC). SLC residents enjoy…