Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Neuroimmunology

Purpose

Tenure-track faculty position at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Neuroimmunology

Primary Functions

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is seeking a Neuroimmunologist to join our faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the tenure track. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in mechanisms of neuroinflammation, immune-mediated neurological diseases, innate functions of glial cells, or immune surveillance. However, strong candidates in all areas of neuroimmunology will be considered. The faculty member would be expected to establish a federally funded research program. Generous laboratory space and start-up funds are available. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D., M.D., or an equivalent doctoral level degree, and a productive track record in research. Candidates at the Associate Professor rank will be expected to have current Federal funding for their research.

The candidate will join the Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) at MCW, which is an interdisciplinary research center focused on creation of new knowledge that impacts our ability to prevent, treat and cure neurologic and psychiatric diseases and disorders. The NRC mission is to facilitate neuroscience discovery at MCW, with an emphasis on collaborative research. NRC members’ research interests include: CNS autoimmunity, brain and spinal cord injury, inflammatory mechanisms, addiction, pain, human cognition, neurodegeneration and mood disorders.

The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative campus-wide immunology program. Immunological expertise on campus includes CNS autoimmunity, B cell biology, T cell memory, cancer immunology and immunotherapies. The newly established Center for Immunology brings the basic and clinical immunology community together under one umbrella fostering collaborations between its members.

The Neuroscience Research Center operates mouse and rat behavior cores and provides its members with access to shared equipment, including a custom LaVision multiphoton system, a Leica SP8 Upright Confocal scanning microscope equipped for rapid imaging of clarified tissue, and shared equipment for histology and qPCR. Research cores in the microbiome, genetics, transgenic animal development and virus production are also available at MCW.

The successful candidate will be offered a faculty appointment in a basic science department and in the MCW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, which trains PhD and MS students, and will participate in teaching as needed. Departments with overlapping interests in immunology and neuroscience include Microbiology and Immunology and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests and the names and contact information for 3 references to: NRCapplications@mcw.edu