Open Rank (Assistant, Associate or Full) Professor Focused on AI/Computational Approaches in Drug Discovery and Development

About the Opportunity

About Northeastern:

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 280 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial, and biomedical sciences and supports the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences is organized in four Schools: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences comprising two departments that include Pharmaceutical Sciences (running this search as the leading department for the academic appointment); Community Health and Behavioral Sciences comprising two departments; Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences comprising three departments; and Nursing.

Other STEM colleges at Northeastern University include:  College of Science,

College of Engineering, and Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

Northeastern is home to the7Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory (BATL),  Coastal Sustainability Institute, the Global Resilience Institute, the Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis, the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems, the Network Science Institute, the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence, the Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology, an NSF Frontier Center in Theoretical Biological Physics, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, and the Life Sciences Testing Center, among others, providing a rich multidisciplinary intellectual environment.

About the Opportunity:

The Center for Drug Discovery (CDD) at Northeastern University invites applications for open rank tenure-track/tenured faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels with projected start dates in 2025. The CDD seeks to hire faculty members with research programs at the medicinal chemistry, preclinical, behavioral, and/or translational levels that address addiction and mental health with a focus on AI/computational approaches to drug discovery and drug development. Junior scientists using breakthrough technologies are welcome to apply, as are senior faculty with internationally recognized research programs and strong funding, and whose expertise will complement the activities of faculty affiliated with the CDD toward drug discovery.

Competitive applicants will have research programs leveraging Computational Biology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to advance drug discovery. The targeted academic home is one of the departments in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences; a joint appointment in another department/college can be considered. Additional colleges, department