Founding Director & Endowed Chair, Center for Inflammation Science

Founding Director & Endowed Chair, Center for Inflammation Science

Position : Founding Director & Endowed Chair, Center for Inflammation Science

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.

Specialty : Leadership, Diabetes, Metabolism, Clinical Research, Principal Investigator, Biomedical Engineering, Integrative Biology, Physiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity, Metabolism

Location : Minneapolis, MN

Founding Director, Center for Inflammation Sciences (CIS)

The Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and the University of Minnesota Medical School is seeking an outstanding, tenured faculty member as the Founding Director of the Center for Inflammation Sciences (CIS).

We seek exceptional faculty candidates with established research programs in the study of inflammation in health and disease, from an integrative molecular to systems physiology perspective.

Areas of Interest

Areas of particular interest include sterile inflammation and innate and adaptive immunology as related to the cardiovascular system, muscle, metabolism, diabetes, obesity, stress and related fields.

The Director will lead the Center and articulate the vision, mission and integration of the center within the exceptional academic medical center framework.

Substantial Resources

The Director will be given substantial resources to recruit additional tenure-track faculty members to further grow and strengthen the network of faculty studying inflammation in health and disease, including leading the development of NIH programmatic and center grant initiatives.

The director will be conferred as the Bacaner Endowed Chair in Physiology. Substantial resources, with state-of-the-art research space, is committed to this effort.

Required Qualifications

Successful candidates will have an established and innovative research program that embraces biological complexity and physiology from molecular building blocks to the living organism and human disease.

Applicants must have a strong record of research accomplishments, as documented by publications in leading peer-reviewed journals along with an outstanding record of extramural funding.

Minimum requirements are a PhD, MD or MD / PhD with tenure at an academic research institution.

Strategic Collaborations / Centers of Excellence

The successful applicant will be a highly collaborative and inclusive leader that seeks to leverage some of the University's world class Institutes / Centers / Departments, including but not limited to :

• Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology (IBP)
• IBAM - Institute for the Biology of Aging & Metabolism
• IDOM - Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism
• Masonic Cancer Center
• Center for Magnetic Resonance Research

Additional Resources Include

• Exceptional on-site research core facilities include the :
• Minnesota SuperComputing Institute
• University Imaging Center
• Mouse Genetics Laboratory
• and many others.
• Education & Training
• There are also several active and relevant training grant (T32) programs that offer pre- and post-doctoral support for training students and fellows in several areas, including obesity / diabetes, aging, muscle biology and cardiology.

Position Specifics

The University of Minnesota Medical School and the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology invite applications and nominations for an outstanding scientific leader to serve as the Founding Director of the Center for Inflammation Sciences (CIS).

The Founding Director will be conferred as the Bacaner Endowed Chair in Physiology, and their tenure-track departmental home will be embedded within the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology.

Substantial resources, with state-of-the-art research space, is committed to this effort. Successful candidates will have an established and innovative research program that embraces biological complexity and physiology from molecular building blocks to the living organism and human disease.

Applicants must have a strong record of research accomplishments, as documented by publications in leading peer-reviewed journals along with an outstanding record of extramural funding.

Minimum requirements are a PhD, MD or MD / PhD with tenure at an academic research institution.

Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology

This new department of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of Minnesota is central to the mission of the Medical School and University.

The department stands on the shoulders of legends, most notably Professor Maurice Visscher who, more than 50 years ago, had the vision to reach across disciplines in the quest for knowledge discovery.

This was a huge leap forward as most everyone then built departments as silos not daring to seek cross-disciplinary interactions.

Visscher's efforts helped launch a remarkable period of biomedical growth and discovery, particularly in cardiovascular biology and disease, where landmark breakthroughs in portable cardiac defibrillators and cardiac open heart repair were envisioned and brought to fruition.

In this spirit, the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology emerges. Our research centers on integrative systems biology of the heart and vasculature, including the close linkages among cardiovascular diseases and obesity, diabetes and metabolism at the whole animal level.

The department is ideally positioned to bridge basic science discoveries to clinically relevant applications, spanning from academia to our neighbors in the biomedical industry.

The spotlight is on Minnesota as a rising star in cardiovascular research. We welcome new faculty and students who embrace this vision.

Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism

The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota is uniquely poised to become a premier research institute that is focused on advancing knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications through cutting edge research.

The mission of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) is to enhance research quality by growing multidisciplinary collaborations in diabetes research by creating a rich environment that unites diabetes investigators through enrichment and training opportunities, to provide access to pilot funds, and to make cost-effective animal physiology services available to members of the IDOM.

Our goal is to create the environment and infrastructure necessary to support funded diabetes investigators and the integration of their data into our greater understanding of the whole of diabetes.

We are committed to creating a research environment that supports fundamental projects designed to understand the basic biology of the disease and then translating these findings to humans.

This commitment will ensure that our basic findings are relevant to the human model and support of the development of new ways to prevent and treat the disease and its complications.

How to apply

The University of Minnesota Medical School has retained the services of Academic Med to assist with this strategically important leadership search.

The search will be led by Gentry Zacheis, Managing Principal for Academic Med. Please direct any initial inquiries, nominations or applications to Mr.

Zacheis via email, [email protected]

EEO / AA

The University of Minnesota Medical School is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action institution committed to excellence through diversity.

UMN will not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other status or classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

All eligible candidates are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

J-18808-Ljbffr