Assistant Professor, focus in thoracic malignancies

Job description

1 Always promotes the mission of the School of Medicine and Knight Cancer Institute through our Professional Standards of Customer Service, Reliability, Productivity, Professionalism, Accuracy, Timeliness, and Problem-Solving.
2 Scientific Project Oversight – Direct laboratory research projects. Including identification of scientific problem, design of approach to address it, and identification, acquisition and management of resources to perform investigations. Assign personnel, track their progress, and ensure maximum productivity. Foster and support teamwork. Provide training and guidance to postdoctoral fellows, clinical research fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students.
3 Laboratory Research Project Management: Independently develop and manage a research program, inclusive of research experiments, determining the most suitable methods to be used. Interpret and perform complex data analysis on experimental results and determine whether they are consistent with goals. Ensure that direct reports maintain accurate and detailed records of all experimental procedures, data collections and analysis performed. Maintain a high level of professional expertise through familiarity with current scientific literature. As needed, develop innovative techniques and experimental systems to meet research program goals.
4 Scientific Writing and Grant Management: Prepare research findings for presentation at scientific meetings and conference and manuscripts for publication. Prepare research proposals for grant applications that are aligned with the mission of the Knight.
5 Laboratory Organization and Compliance: Develop and implement procedures and systems to maximize the organization and efficiency within designated projects. Mentor and train lab members on lab practices and protocols. Ensure that staff is adequately trained to meet compliance for regulatory board reviews as required. Aid in the submission of specific protocols to the Institutional Review Board and other regulatory review boards, as appropriate.
6 Collaborative Interactions: Develop, foster and maintain relationships with partners in academia and in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries. Oversee the advancement of specific sponsored research agreement (SRA) funded projects and ensure that external partners receive regular project updates. Participate in occasional teaching assignments.
Required: Doctorate degree in relevant field and 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Eight or more years in a research position, including at least 4 years of postdoctoral project management experience
• Excellence demonstrated in grant and manuscript writing and editing
• Proficient with computers specifically MS Office (which includes, Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint) and statistical analysis software.
• Strong publication record
• Experience handling chemical and biologically hazardous materials.
• Knowledge of policy and regulations applicable to the laboratory, including but not limited to safety, animal and radiation.
• Technical proficiency, scientific creativity collaborative ability, and independent thinker
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with a high performing work group
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks at one time
• Must have excellent communication, analytical and organizational skills: both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team while being collaborative in resolving problems.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new and innovative processed quickly
• Must possess energy and drive to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to use tact and diplomacy to maintain effective working relationships
• Ability to operate complex scientific equipment and develop and troubleshoot complex experimental protocols
• Demonstrated ability to build productive cross functional collaborations both internally and externally
• Ability to analyze short and long term project needs.
• Ability to schedule, manage and coordinate multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• Experience with in-vivo and in-vitro models of cancer, drug discovery, preclinical testing of novel therapeutics, cancer biomarkers, statistics, bioinformatics, and experience with clinical trial data evaluation preferred.