Associate/Full Professor, Texas Therapeutics Institute - The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine

Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas

Category: Faculty

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Requisition #: 240000C7

The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM)is part ofMcGovern Medical Schoolat UTHealth Houston. IMM is a translational research institute that investigates the cause of human diseases at the genetic, cellular, and molecular level. We inviteapplications for a faculty position at theTexas Therapeutics Institute (TTI), one of eight research centers within the IMM.

Position Key Accountabilities:

The appointment will be at the ASSOCIATE/FULL Professor level. The candidate will be expected to play a key role in strengthening an academic drug discovery center with a focus on antibody and protein therapeutics. The candidate is expected to supervise students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientists.

Qualifications:

Qualified applicants must demonstrate a commitment to excellence, discovery, and service, have the potential to be outstanding in their field of expertise, and share an interest in fulfilling the common goals of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Preferred candidates will have abackground in biologics process and analytical development, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), and/or Investigational New Drug (IND) and Biologics License Application (BLA) filings.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.

UTHealth Benefits

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