Faculty Positions at The Wistar Institute

As the nation’s first independent biomedical research Institute with a tradition of landmark discoveries in the areas of cancer, immunology and vaccines, The Wistar Institute has embarked on or upon its largest facility and faculty expansion. Enabled by the recent opening of a new, state-of-the-art Robert and Penny Fox Research Tower, and renewal of its NCI-designated Cancer Center designation with an Exceptional rating, the Institute now seeks outstanding faculty candidates at all academic ranks (Assistant, Associate and Full Professor) for multiple faculty positions in its four Cancer Center Programs: Gene Expression and Regulation, Translational Tumor Immunology, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis. Successful candidates will leverage a highly collaborative and inclusive institutional culture to develop or expand extramurally-funded research programs in basic and translational molecular cancer research. Investigators working in any cancer type are welcomed to apply although ovarian cancer and melanoma are particular focus areas in the Cancer Center. Key areas of programmatic interest include, but are not limited to: • Cancer epigenetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, functional genomics, gene expression regulation, non-coding RNAs, tumor virology; • Tumor suppressor and oncogenes, cancer stem cells, cancer metabolomics; • Tumor immunology; • Metastasis and tumor microenvironment; • Systems and computational biology of cancer development and treatment resistance; • Chemical biology, new target identification and biomarker assessment. The Wistar Institute offers highly competitive start-up support, salary and fringe benefits in addition to an outstanding and highly interactive research environment. Faculty will be recruited to new research space with a state-of-the-art vivarium and outstanding core facilities in proteomics, genomics, imaging, molecular screening, bioinformatics, flow cytometry, and others. The Institute’s location adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania campus provides for vigorous academic and clinical collaborations, as well as attractive training opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Applications will be reviewed as received and will be accepted until all positions are filled. To ensure timely consideration during the current recruitment cycle, applicants should submit applications before November 1, 2014. The application should include: a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of past and future research interests, history of research funding support (if applicable). Applications (submitted as a single PDF) should be sent by e-mail to: Maria Colelli, Faculty Search Coordinator (colelli@wistar.org), The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V.