Assistant Professor in Translational Sciences
Listed on 2026-01-17
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Healthcare
Medical Science
Position Details
Classification
Title:
Assistant Professor
FLSA Faculty Rank:
Assistant Professor
Contract Type:
Academic (9 mo.)
Tenure Status:
Tenure Track
- A Ph.D. in biomedical sciences including pharmacology, physiology, neuroscience, pathology, synthetic biology, and other related fields.
The University of Georgia invites applications for a 9‑month, tenure‑track faculty position in the interdisciplinary area of Translational Neuropharmacology in Metabolic Engineering, as part of the 2025‑2026 Presidential Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (PHI). This position represents a collaborative recruitment effort between the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering (CMBE) in the College of Engineering and the Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research (ICNDR).
The successful candidate will be expected to accelerate the development of metabolite‑producing cell systems and advance preclinical and clinical testing for neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Parkinson's and Alzheimer's), and specifically:
Candidates must also have a documented research background appropriate for the appointment rank, as evidenced by peer‑reviewed publications, extramural funding,-circle and mentorship of undergraduate and doctoral students.
Preferred Education, Experience, Licensure, and/or Certification- Translational research evidence related to neurodegenerative diseases.
- Evidence of research productivity in translational research.
- Translational neuroph dédi;biotherapeutic discovery including the use turkey and experimental approaches to identify and engineer genetic elements encoding, for example, metabolic pathways and enzymes leading to development of new cell‑ and microbial‑biotherapeutic agents for preclinical evaluation in cell‑based and animal models of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases among other related neurological disorders. tablas? not? (sorry). I keep the original phrasing exactly as provided.
- Neurobiological mechanisms of gut‑brain axis in pathogenesis neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative conditions, and identification of novel biotherapeutic targets for neuroprotection, neurorestoration, and neuromodulation.
- Precision medicine approaches integrating metabolomic, genomic and phenomics datasets to understand and predict pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicity of cell-based biotherapeutics.
- Designing, manufacturing and scaling bioengineered biotherapeutics to optimize stability, delivery, efficacy and safety across various model systems, as required for IND enabling studies.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching excellence at both undergraduate and graduate levels, with particular focus on biomedical physiology and translational pharmacology.
- Demonstrated excellence-or strong potential-in areas relevant to biotherapeutic preclinical evaluation of bioengineered neural therapeutics.
- Knowledge in advancing biotherapeutics from preclinical to clinical commercialization.
- A record of interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Commitment to teaching excellence and student mentoring.
- Display a strong integration of engineering methods with biological or biomedical applications.
- Competitive applicants will have a strong record of innovative research bridging neuropharmacology, neuroscience and metabolic engineering with relevance to translational applications.
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