Applications are invited for tenure-track faculty positions in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Successful candidates will carry out independent research on the genesis, progression, prognosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer that synergize with ongoing efforts at the Center. Areas of special interest include, but not limited to: cancer genetics, cancer stem cells, metastasis, tumor microenvironment, inflammation and cancer, and animal models of cancer.
The new faculty members will join an interactive, interdisciplinary community of scientists and clinicians at the Center, which offers an outstanding basic and translational research environment within expanded state-of-the-art research facilities. Faculty will be eligible to hold graduate school appointments in the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, as well as the Tri-Institutional MD/PhD Training Program.
Candidates should e-mail their application, preferably in PDF format, to cancerbio@mskcc.org by November 1, 2008. The application should include a Curriculum Vitae, a description of past research, a description of proposed research (3-7 pages), and copies of three representative publications.
Candidates should arrange to have three signed letters of reference in PDF format sent by e-mail to cancerbio@mskcc.org addressed to:
Joan Massagué, PhD
c/o Maria Beckles,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue, Box 494
New York, NY, 10065
