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The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo invites applications for two faculty positions in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. This search targets investigators working on any molecular, cellular, and/or immunological aspect of microbial pathogenesis.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The department is strongly research-oriented, with major programs in bacteriology, immunology, mycology, parasitology, and virology. The department has an active research faculty containing 11 primary faculty members and a number of adjunct faculty as part of the graduate research faculty. Most departmental faculty members are also members of The Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, an interdisciplinary center within the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The department is fully equipped with all technology required to support a cutting-edge research program. For more details on faculty and research programs, please visit: https://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/micro/research/witebsky.html

All individuals hired will be expected to establish and/or maintain an on-site extramurally-funded and productive research program, to contribute to undergraduate, graduate, and professional teaching, and to assume various administrative responsibilities of the department.

Only applications and documents submitted online via the UBJobs site will be accepted.

Facilities and Research Partners
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology is housed in a new state-of-the-art facility on the downtown Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Nearby are the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and the Hauptmann-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), which have international reputations in cancer research and structural biology, respectively. The University at Buffalo (UB) has Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and Pharmacy, whose faculty collaborate extensively within the University, as well as with faculty at RPCI and HWI. Other institutional resources located on the downtown campus are the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and the Clinical and Translational Research Center.

Outstanding Benefits Package

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