Faculty Position Imaging Leader Virginia Tech 535153 Roanoke, Virginia Fralin Biomedical Res. Institute Teaching & Research Faculty Vice President for Research Job Description Virginia Tech (VT) seeks to recruit a senior or mid-career level biomedical imaging technology innovator to join the faculty at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC (FBRI - https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/) for a tenured or tenure-track
faculty position at the associate or full professor level. The research institute supports entrepreneurial activity through dedicated translational biomedical research programs, innovation and commercialization offices, and robust partnerships with biotech and clinical enterprises. Candidates with experience in technology development, patenting, commercialization, and collaborative industry partnerships are
encouraged to apply.The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. degree, have completed postdoctoral training and successfully led their own independent extramurally-funded research program as a mid-career or senior level faculty member. In addition to leading their own research program, they will develop new advanced imaging technologies for use by their laboratory and for the use of other investigators at the
research institute, while also overseeing the current portfolio of imaging technologies and facilities. The specific area of the candidate’s own research program may be in cancer, neuroscience and/or cardiovascular science or span these areas, providing opportunities for collaboration with other faculty at the research institute across those three primary research focus areas. The faculty member will join 44 other
faculty-led teams at the FBRI. They will also have leadership and oversight responsibility for our institute’s multiple cellular and molecular imaging platforms and their technical support staff. The primary responsibility for the position is to carry out leading-edge research that makes major use of advanced optical imaging technologies while also developing new approaches to imaging that will benefit their own as
well as other FBRI investigators’ research programs and to collaborate with those other investigators. The candidate will be expected to maintain extramural funding for their research program and to participate in graduate teaching as well as to provide research project mentorship for graduate, medical and undergraduate students. It is expected that the candidate will participate in programmatic grant development and
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