Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Two Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Neurological Surgery

Neurobiologist

The Department of Neurological Surgery and the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at the University of Louisville announces a search for an Assistant or Associate Professor with interests including, but not restricted to, developmental neurobiology, immunology, inflammation, plasticity, and/or regeneration. Candidates should have an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree and demonstrated productivity excellence in their graduate, postdoctoral, and/or early faculty research careers. It is expected that a strong extramurally funded research program will be developed. The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative and productive faculty with strengths in molecular, cellular, and rehabilitative aspects of SCI. Outstanding core facilities will enable new collaborations. This tenure track position is supported by a substantial endowment to be used at the discretion of the successful candidate with the potential to become an endowed chair at tenure. Membership in the graduate faculty will be through a secondary appointment in an appropriate basic science department.

Basic and/or Clinical Aspects of Plasticity after SCI

The Department of Neurological Surgery, Frazier Rehabilitation Institute and the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at the University of Louisville announce a search for an Assistant or Associate Professor with research interests including, but not restricted to, clinical, translational or basic models of rehabilitation, neuroplasticity, motor control (posture, locomotion, respiration) and/or autonomic regulation after brain or spinal cord injury. Candidates should have an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree and demonstrated productivity in their graduate, postdoctoral, and/or early faculty research careers. It is expected that a strong extramurally funded research program will be developed. The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative and productive faculty with strengths in molecular, cellular, and rehabilitative aspects of SCI . Outstanding clinical, rehabilitation and basic science facilities will facilitate new collaborations. This tenure track position is supported by a substantial endowment to  be used at the discretion of the successful candidate with the potential to become an endowed chair at tenure. Membership in the graduate faculty will be through a secondary appointment in an appropriate basic science department.

Submit curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, contact information for four references to Mr. Jeffrey Leis, Unit Business Manager, Dept. Neurological Surgery, University of Louisville, 401 E. Chestnut St., Suite 580, Louisville, KY 40292 or submit e-mail application to jeffrey.leis@louisville.edu.  Applications will begin to be evaluated on 04/04/2011.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Americans with Disabilities Employer, committed to diversity and in that spirit, seeks applications from a broad variety of candidates.