Bioinformatics Faculty

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.

OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is seeking exceptional candidates for a tenure track/tenured, fixed-term, or variable track faculty position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The successful candidate will be a creative scientist or physician-scientist with expertise in bioinformatics, especially its application to problems in pathology research and pathology clinical laboratories. Applicants developing their own research program will be prioritized. Priority will also be given to applicants with the interest and ability to collaborate with ongoing departmental research efforts requiring bioinformatics expertise, such as analysis of unique microbial or viral genomes isolated in the clinical laboratory, cancer genomic and transcriptome sequencing, single cell sequencing, and analysis of multi-omics datasets. The department has a Ph.D. graduate student training program and pathology residency and fellowship programs. It is expected that the successful faculty applicant will lead the design of introductory bioinformatics education for these learners.

Appointment and rank in the department will be determined by the applicant's qualifications. There are opportunities for teaching in the School of Medicine and the Graduate School.

The applicant must have a PhD, MD/PhD, or DVM/PhD degree.

Applicants should have a strong record of recent accomplishments as a post-doctoral fellow or sustained productivity as an established faculty member.

We especially seek applicants with specific quantitative training or experience in computer science, computer information systems, bioinformatics, genetics, statistics, mathematics, physics, computational biology, or a relevant field. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of experience in DNA or RNA sequence analysis, Linux shell scripting, working in a cluster computing environment, R, and at least one of Python, Unix, Java, C/C++, or Perl. The candidate must have strong communication skills and serve as a departmental resource for those with limited computational experience.

Please upload the names and contact information for four (4) references. A summary of career goals should be uploaded as the required "Other Document."

If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

If you have any questions about the job requirements or the hiring department notify the Department Contact.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.