Imaging Leader - Faculty

Imaging Leader - Faculty

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech (VT) seeks to recruit a senior or mid‑career level biomedical imaging technology innovator to join the faculty at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC (FBRI – (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).) for a tenured or tenure‑track faculty position at the associate or full professor level. The research institute supports entrepreneurial activity through dedicated translational biomedical research programs, innovation and commercialization offices, and robust partnerships with biotech and clinical enterprises.

Candidates with experience in technology development, patenting, commercialization, and collaborative industry partnerships are encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. degree, have completed postdoctoral training and successfully led their own independent extramurally‑funded research program as a mid‑career or senior level faculty member. In addition to leading their own research program, they will develop new advanced imaging technologies for use by their laboratory and for the use of other investigators at the research institute, while also overseeing the current portfolio of imaging technologies and facilities.

The specific area of the candidate’s own research program may be in cancer, neuroscience and/or cardiovascular science or span these areas, providing opportunities for collaboration with other faculty at the research institute across those three primary research focus areas. The faculty member will join 44 other faculty‑led teams at the FBRI. They will also have leadership and oversight responsibility for our institute’s multiple cellular and molecular imaging platforms and their technical support staff.

The primary responsibility for the position is to carry out leading‑edge research that makes major use of advanced optical imaging technologies while also developing new approaches to imaging that will benefit the candidate’s own as well as other FBRI investigators’ research programs and to collaborate with those other investigators. The candidate will be expected to maintain extramural funding for their research program and to participate in graduate teaching as well as to provide research project mentorship for graduate, medical and undergraduate students.

It is expected that the candidate will participate in programmatic grant development and multi‑investigator collaborations. Candidates with national recognition and/or leadership in microscopy and imaging tool development are welcomed.

The position will be located at the FBRI on Virginia Tech’s health sciences and technology campus in Roanoke, Virginia. In addition to the position at the FBRI, the faculty member will also have a tenured or tenure‑track (as appropriate) appointment in an appropriate VT department from among multiple colleges.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic and growing community of scholars including scientists and physician‑scientists focused on next generation approaches to cancer, heart and brain research directed at having dramatic impacts on understanding, prevention, diagnoses and treatments for a wide range of disorders that impact those systems and processes.

Research infrastructure at the FBRI currently includes over 300,000 square feet of lab, core facilities and office space (). Facilities at the research institute () include multiple 3.0T MRIs, high field MR guided PET and MR‑guided focused ultrasound, optically pumped magnetometry (OPM‑MEG), scanning block face EM, cryo‑TEM, super resolution by optical reassignment microscopy, TIRF, laser scanning confocal microscopy, two‑photon microscopy, confocal point scanning confocal microscopy with tunable white laser and UV for FRET and FRAT, advanced spatial transcriptomics single cell sequencing, and cell analyzer flow cytometry, among other platforms ().

Please submit your application before January 20, 2026 to posting #535153 including full curriculum vitae, detailed statement of research accomplishments and plans, vision for the future development of imaging…