Neurology Physician-Scientist Faculty Position in the Genetics of Cognitive Disorders and Dementia

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OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Departments of Neurology and Genetics are seeking a full-time, tenure-track, research-emphasis clinician-scientist faculty to join our expanding Divisions of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology and/or Precision Neurology and Neurogenetics. The position can be assistant, associate, or full professor rank depending on experience and eligibility.

The primary responsibility will be to make high impact scientific contributions to the advancement of neurodegeneration research, with focus on the genetics of dementia. Applicants with any research focus blending genetics and cognitive disorders are encouraged to apply. Research focus on non-mendelian genetics, age associated somatic variations or epigenetics are of high interest. A successful applicant will possess the experience and skills needed to develop and maintain an extramurally-funded research program and is expected to participate in the training of students, postdoctoral researchers, residents and fellows. Clinical activity in the Department of Neurology is expected and encouraged at a level allowable by type and amount of research support. Applicants without active research support sufficient to cover 50% or more of their effort will be offered time-limited protected research effort as a component of their start up package. The Department of Genetics has a long-standing history of supporting successful researchers, and has been ranked first in NIH funding for Genetics departments at public institutions for the past seven years.

This position will also be supported with a research start up package with funds from the Departments of Neurology and Genetics. UNC offers extensive core facilities and research infrastructure including access to research participant samples through our membership in NIH supported consortia on Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia with Lewy Bodies ( DLB) and Frontotemporal Dementia ( FTD) including the Duke/ UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center ( ADRC) (https://dukeuncadrc.org). Extensive genomics core facilities are also available (https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/core-listings-by-categories/genomics/). Collaborations outside of the sponsoring departments in the schools of Medicine, Public Health and Pharmacy is encouraged. Extensive computational resources at UNC are available as well as collaboration with the Renaissance Computing Institute (https://renci.org/resources/) and Computational Medicine program (https://www.med.unc.edu/compmed/).

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Candidate must possess an M.D., with training in Neurology and eligible or certified for the practice of Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The candidate must be licensed or eligible for medical licensure in North Carolina. The candidate is expected to lead an extramurally funded research program at the intersection of genetics/genomics and cognitive disorders and dementia.

Subspecialty training in neurogenetics and/or cognitive disorders is highly desired.

If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

If you have any questions about the job requirements or the hiring department notify the Department Contact.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.