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The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center, located in Winston-Salem North Carolina, are seeking candidates for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level with proven expertise in experimental and clinical toxicology and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) analyses. The specific role of this position is to apply PK/PD concepts in innovative and cutting-edge clinical and/or translational toxicology research. The new faculty member will be operating in a multidisciplinary environment so a willingness to collaborate across functional teams is essential. The new faculty member should have an aptitude and desire to learn and apply new techniques and is expected to possess personal attributes of integrity, creativity, problem solving, and a strong work ethic.
The successful candidate will join the Wake Forest Organoid Research Center (WFORCE), a joint effort between the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center. WFORCE brings together researchers and clinicians, who are working side by side, to leverage the use of tissue organoid technology for the benefit of our patients. One of the primary focus of WFORCE is to leverage reconstruction of patient-specific 3D tissue organoids and apply it translationally, with a goal of informing personalized treatment of a verity of diseases, including cancer, as well as research and development of new therapies.
Generous packages will be provided to start up and sustain the laboratories of successful candidates. The Wake Forest School of Medicine offers numerous subsidized, state-of-the-art core facilities open to all investigators, as well as several NIH-funded programs to support graduate student and postdoctoral training.
Required Qualifications: PharmD, PhD or MD with Post Graduate toxicology training and PK/PD analyses. Experience in working with PK/PD applications to clinical and translational research, with a focus on drug toxicity in in vitro and in an organ-system based in vivo models.
It is expected that the new recruit will have the ability to establish his/her research program and team through independent research funding. Specifically, demonstrated research productivity including evidence of an independently funded research - preferably ending after June 2026.
In addition, experience in working with interdisciplinary research teams, as well as collaborations with other Wake Forest School of Medicine's faculty members and their projects. Experience in university teaching, and mentoring members of underrepresented groups is a plus.
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Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and part of Atrium Health Enterprise. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
