Faculty - Assistant/Associate Professor Immunology
Company: WMU Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
Location: Kalamazoo
Posted on: January 21, 2023
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Job Description:
-The Center for Immunobiology at the Western Michigan University
Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine and its Director, Thomas L.
Rothstein MD, PhD, invite applications for a faculty position at
the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor. The Center's current
focus is on the development and function of B cells in health and
disease, and encompasses both human and mouse systems. Appointments
will be in the Department of Investigative Medicine, within which
the Center is located.The successful candidate is expected to
develop and maintain an innovative and independent research program
supported by extramural funding. Desirable qualifications include
the potential for productive research interactions with faculty
colleagues within the Center and the Department. The position
offers a generous start-up package with competitive compensation
and comprehensive benefits in a progressive environment.Preference
will be given to applicants with a recognized record of
accomplishment as evidenced by scholarly publications in the field
of immunology and demonstrated ability or strong potential to
obtain extramural funding to support their work. Qualified
applicants must have a PhD, MD or MD/PhD degree, and postdoctoral
research training. Academic rank and salary are commensurate with
experience. -About the Center for ImmunobiologyThe Center for
Immunobiology is a 5 year old division within the medical school.
The Center is endowed with the very latest instrumentation to speed
research discovery. Common equipment includes 2 BD Influx sorters
and a Melody cell sorter (in Class II containment hoods), BD
Fortessa and Thermo Fisher Attune flow cytometers, a Nikon confocal
microscope, a BioTek Lionheart automated microscope, an Applied
Biosystems SeqStudio Sanger sequencer and an Illumina MiSeq
sequencer, a 10XGenomics platform, a QuantStudio 3D digital PCR
system, a QuantStudio 3 RealTime PCR cycler, a Bio-Rad FPLC system,
a Bio-Rad gel doc system, a Bioruptor Plus sonicator, a
4D-Nucleofector, a CTL multi-spectral ELISPOT reader, a BioTek
visible/fluorescence/bioluminescence microplate reader, a BioTek
microplate washer, 2 Savant speedvacs, 3 bacterial incubator
shakers, and ultra-, superspeed, and cytospin centrifuges, with
multiple rotors, among other items. Three separate, fully equipped
common rooms are outfitted for BL2 work (2 laminar flow hoods, 2
refrigerated table top centrifuges, 2 CO2 incubators, 2 inverted
phase microscopes, one -20 C freezer, -one 80 C freezer, one 4 C
refrigerator), radioisotope work (1 laminar flow hood, 1 CO2
incubator, a 96 well harvester, 2 32P workstations, a Perkin-Elmer
Betaplate beta counter, an LKB gamma counter), and tissue culture
work (6 laminar flow hoods, 2 refrigerated table top centrifuges, 4
CO2 incubators, 1 tri-gas incubator, 1 inverted phase microscope,
one -20 C freezer and one 4 C refrigerator). Additional separate
rooms house core equipment, freezers, and an X-ray developer. The
Center floor includes a walk-in cold room, a conference room, and a
break room. The animal facility is located on the same floor and
contains a PXi X-RAD 320 irradiator and a BL2 room for in vivo work
with infectious agents. Support for the Center includes a flow
cytometer/cell sorter/imaging core manager, a sequencing/equipment
core manager, and a business and operations core manager. - -About
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
(WMed) -We are committed to excellence and health equity through
transformative medical education, high-quality, patient- and
family-entered care, innovative research, and community
partnerships within a just culture of diversity, equity, inclusion,
and belonging. Our vision is health equity for all in Southwest
Michigan through innovation in the practice and study of medicine.
-The medical school is a collaboration of Western Michigan
University and Kalamazoo's two teaching health systems, Ascension
Borgess and Bronson Healthcare. The medical school is a private
nonprofit corporation supported by private gifts, clinical
revenues, research activities, tuition, and endowment income.
Building upon a $100 million foundational gift in 2011, WMed is a
recipient of the Empowering Futures Gift, a philanthropic
commitment of $300 million to support the mission of the medical
school. WMed contributes to the economic vitality of Southwest
Michigan through the services we provide as well as the creation of
1,600 new jobs and an annual estimated economic impact of $353
million in Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties. -WMed is fully
accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the
Higher Learning Commission. The medical school offers a
comprehensive, innovative four-year Doctor of Medicine degree
program and two Master of Science degree programs in Biomedical
Sciences and Medical Engineering. We train physicians in 10
residencies and five fellowships accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education. To support our educational
mission, we have Joint Accreditation for interprofessional
continuing education, which incorporates accreditation by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. -WMed
Health is the clinical practice of the medical school with more
than 300 providers offering comprehensive primary care and
specialty services in several locations throughout Kalamazoo,
Portage, and Battle Creek. The Department of Pathology faculty
serve as the Office of the Medical Examiner for counties throughout
Michigan and northern Indiana. -The W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus located
in downtown Kalamazoo serves as the primary educational facility
with faculty and administrative offices, student study and social
spaces, team-based learning halls, a state-of-the-art Simulation
Center accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare,
basic science research labs, as well as toxicology and forensic
pathology labs. -WMed is building upon Kalamazoo's century-long
foundation of drug discovery and medical device development with a
strategic investment in clinical, laboratory, community, and
educational research. The Center for Immunobiology, Center for
Clinical Research, Research Histology Lab, Innovation Center, and
Human Research Protection Program contribute to the medical
school's advancement of knowledge through innovation and discovery.
- -Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of
Medicine is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer of females, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and
protected veterans, and actively strives to increase diversity
within its community. We provide a drug- and tobacco-free
workplace. - -EEO Minorities/Women/Disabled/Protected Veterans.
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