Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: Oct 06, 2023 Deadline: Oct 06, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
The Department of Physiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for a Full Professor position in the tenure track. Applicants must have an Ph.D. and/or M.D. degree.
Teaching responsibilities may include graduate and medical student instruction and training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Applicants are expected to have funding and an internationally-recognized reputation of innovative research excellence and productivity, including high impact publications. We seek investigators with demonstrated excellence in research grounded in fundamental mechanistic investigation that leverages molecular, biophysical, structural and cell-biological insights to inform physiological functions. The Department has strengths in membrane transport, cytoskeletal biology, molecular motors, cell signaling, metabolism and cellular neuroscience, with strong interests in novel technologies and interdisciplinary research
The Perelman School of Medicine, one of the top ranked medical schools in the country for NIH funding, is a highly collaborative envioroment with state-of-the-art core facilities (https://www.med.upenn.edu/cores/). There are opportunities for appointments in numberous thematic institutes and centers (https://www.med.upenn.edu/psom/centers.html/), including the Cardiovascular Institute, Mahony Institute for Neurosciences, Pennsylvaina Muscle Institute, and Abramson Cancer Center. The School of Medicine is integrated within the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, a world class institution with an easily walkable campus located near central Philadelphia.
We seek candidates who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. The University of Pennsylvania is an EOE. Minorities/women/individuals with disabilities/protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected class. Questions or concerns about this should be directed to the Executive Director of the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, University of Pennsylvania, 421 Franklin Building, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205; or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD).
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