Key Requirements

• Job Summary
• Successful candidates will join a vibrant and growing research community with a strong commitment to building a broad and excellent research and teaching environment. The Department of Biochemistry is located on the Utah Health Sciences Campus and currently has 25 tenure-track faculty. Areas of research expertise amongst our faculty are diverse, and range from structural, chemical, and cell biology, to metabolism, RNA biochemistry and genetics. Faculty in our Department benefit from the tight-knit, supportive and collaborative research environment at the University of Utah, including state-of-the-art research facilities and access to a talented pool of PhD students from the University of Utah’s Bioscience PhD programs.
• Candidates will be expected to lead a strong externally funded research program, contribute to PhD and medical student education and provide service and leadership to the University and their scientific field. Successful candidates will also have the ability to teach and mentor our range of different students successfully.