Tenure-track faculty position; Wilmot Cancer Institute

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Faculty job description

The Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Research Program within University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute (WCI) invites candidates to apply for full-time tenure-track faculty positions (all ranks considered). 

Opportunity highlights:

·        Opportunities for leadership responsibility within the Wilmot Cancer Institute and the URCC NCORP Research Base (as appropriate for experience).

·        Interact with basic, translational, and clinical scientists across all research programs within the WCI. 

·        Maintain an innovative, independent, collaborative and extramurally-funded research program and participate fully in CPC Program meetings and activities.

·        Work in partnership with more than 30 highly-collaborative faculty and trainees conducting cancer prevention, cancer control and cancer care delivery research across 4 schools and 15 departments. 

·        Access to all WCI shared resources including: 1) the biostatistics and bioinformatics resource, 2) the clinical trials office and infrastructure, 3) the genomics research center, 4) a tissue bio-specimen repository, 5) the human biophysiology resource for behavioral intervention design and delivery, physical activity and functional assessments, patient-reported outcome assessments, and molecular biological assessments, and 6) the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program

The CPC Research Program has been conducting cancer control and cancer care delivery research with continuous funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for more than 40 years.  Under the direction of Drs. Mustian and Mohile, the investigators in this Program work towards a common vision to lower cancer morbidity and mortality through primary prevention and supportive care research. 

Members of the CPC program are internationally renowned for their landmark contributions to the field of oncology in specialty areas including: primary prevention, cancer control, supportive care, behavioral oncology, exercise oncology, geriatric oncology, survivorship, health disparities and training. 

Wilmot Cancer Institute

WCI is comprised of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center—our flagship 86-bed, inpatient and outpatient facility located on the University of Rochester Academic Medical Center campus contiguous with Strong Memorial Hospital—and 11 additional outpatient locations covering a 27-county region surrounding Rochester.  WCI offers patients and their families comprehensive services including one of upstate New York’s largest blood and bone marrow transplant programs, one of the only ACOS-accredited Breast Cancer Centers, and the first clinical Survivorship and Integrative Oncology Programs. 

In addition to connection in a highly collaborative community of investigators, members of the CPC Program and WCI have access to four extremely valuable resources:

·        University of Rochester Cancer Center NCI Community Oncology Research Program (URCC NCORP) Research Base (MPIs Mustian and Morrow):  WCI is home to one of only two NCI-funded NCORP Research Bases in the United States in an Academic Medical Center.  The URCC NCORP Research Base is a legacy Research base with a long and sustained track record of funding, success and growth; URCC is one of the original Research Bases that were funded within the NCI Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) in 1983—the predecessor to today’s NCORP.  The URCC NCORP Research Base is a research hub for investigators where they can utilize a network of >25 NCI-funded community-based NCORP affiliates across the United States, which includes more than 700 geographically different com