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Faculty 12 Job Description Genomic Medicine Faculty The UAB Department of Genetics seeks faculty members to join a program in Genomic Medicine. The successful candidates will be an MD, MD/PhD or PhD and able to sustain a grant-supported clinical and/or laboratory research program in genomic medicine.For clinicians, up to 20% effort seeing patients in genomic medicine-related clinics can be supported, in which case
board certification in clinical genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics is strongly encouraged. Faculty rank is open, depending on the experience of the candidate and external grant funding of the candidate. Faculty rank, salary, and tenure status commensurate with experience and qualifications of the candidate and external grant funding of the candidate. The UAB Department of Genetics has a
robust program in genomic medicine, including an Undiagnosed Disease Program, the Alabama Genomic Health Initiative sponsored by the State of Alabama, and participation in several large NIH-funded consortia, including the All of Us Research Program, the eMERGE consortium, and the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Consortium. We have a close collaboration with the HudsonAlpha Institute for
Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL with the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine. There is also an active training program, including an undergraduate major in genetics and genomics, graduate training in genetics and genomics, a genetic counselor training program, a genetics residency program, and NHGRI-funded programs in genomic medicine, including a T32 in Genomic Medicine and SURE-GM, an R25-funded summer
program for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to spend one summer at HudsonAlpha followed by a second summer at UAB.Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a part of the University of Alabama System, is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center
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