Res Assistant Professor

Employment Type: Staff - Regular

Employee Class: Unclassified PSA FT

Bargaining Unit: BU Exempt

Shift: 1

Work Hours: 800 - 500

Hours Per Week: 40

FTE: 1

Location: Client Admin Location

Department: Pharmacology

Number of Openings: 1

Salary Range: $ 59,000.00 - 59,000.00

Grade: Salaried MC - UN05

Float: N/A

Rotate: N/A

On Call: Yes

Travel: N/A

Weekend/Holiday: Yes

Requisition ID: req2579

Position Control Number (PCN): T88293

Posting Period: 1/14/2021- 1/20/2021

Position Description:

A Research Assistant Professor position, supported through Dr. Amit K. Tiwari’s is available in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The candidate will strengthen our anticancer drug discovery and development program through their expertise in synthetic chemistry, cancer biology, molecular pharmacology and bioanalytical analysis. The complex experiments in a new area of cancer biology will require a highly-trained individual, who can critically think during the experimental design, execution and failures. It is expected that the candidate will have substantial experience in synthetic chemistry and will be comfortable performing in vivo studies. The candidate must be a team player and should be comfortable with training undergraduate/graduate students or technician in Dr. Tiwari lab. He/she will be directly engaged in training graduate students in co-ordination with Dr. Tiwari on chemical synthesis and molecular techniques. This individual together with the assigned graduate student will aid in entire PK and PDX efficacy studies, data analysis as part of these studies and assist in optimization of lead molecules for future pre-clinical development. He/she will also maintain cell lines for in vitro studies and will be responsible for ordering all needed reagents, animal for the proposed study. Furthermore, the candidate will be involved in data analysis, manuscript preparation, and assisting the principal investigator as needed.

Qualifications:

Education/experience/licensing:

PhD or equivalent professional degrees.Minimum of 2 years of post-doctoral experience and must be capable of independent researchDemonstrated expertise in biochemistry and chemical synthesis.Knowledge of anticancer drug discovery and development. Productivity as measured by publication in a peer-reviewed journals. Excellent bioanalytical skill is required

 

Communication and other skills:         

 The selected candidate must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, which are extremely important in designing research strategies, experimental plans, and protocols to graduate students.

Working Conditions:The successful candidate will work in a professional office/lab environment with occasional high stress levels, due to the demands of research productivity and project deadlines. Research techniques and chemistry/bioanalytical/molecular/cell biology laboratory approaches will be used to meet the objectives of the research projects in anticancer drug discovery. The candidate will also work directly with students in the PI’s lab to train them in complex laboratory techniques and the design of new protocols and thesis materials.

The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the people so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.

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