Associate Professor or Professor

The Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. Academic rank faculty track tenure status departmental appointment and compensation will be commensurate with the successful candidates qualifications and experience and determined in accordance with OHSU policy.

VGTI brings together multidisciplinary investigators to address serious infectious disease threats and to move discoveries from molecular and cellular studies through animal models and ultimately into clinical testing. Current strengths include HIV/AIDS herpesvirus biology tuberculosis malaria emerging viruses with pandemic potential viral pathogenesis vaccine development hostpathogen interactions and the immunology of aging.

Located on OHSUs West Campus adjacent to ONPRC VGTI provides access to biosafety level 3 laboratories and advanced technologies that include spatial profiling single-cell transcriptomics flow cytometry genomics virology advanced imaging quantitative PCR and proteomics. OHSUs clinical programs and statewide partnerships create significant opportunities to expand human-focused investigation.

The Division of Infectious Diseases Pediatrics and Internal Medicine links clinical care and translational research across HIV mycobacterial disease infections in immunocompromised hosts viral immunology antimicrobial resistance fungal and parasitic infections and related fields while the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) supports recruitment biospecimen access study coordination and community engagement.

VGTI seeks an accomplished collaborative scientist whose research is centered onhuman translational infectious disease or immunology. The successful candidate will lead an innovative externally funded research program that uses human populations clinical cohorts biospecimens or patient-linked data to define mechanisms of infection and immunity and accelerate the development or evaluation of vaccines therapeutics diagnostics biomarkers or curative strategies. The VGTI is particularly interested in investigators who can create durable connections among human disease mechanistic discovery experimental models and clinical translation.

The successful candidate will:

• Establish maintain and grow an independent nationally or internationally recognized research program in human translational infectious disease or immunology.
• Sustain a strong portfolio of peer-reviewed extramural funding and pursue collaborative multi-investigator programmatic or center-level opportunities when appropriate.
• Develop research that connects human cohorts clinical specimens or patient-derived data with mechanistic studies and where relevant small-animal or nonhuman-primate models.
• Build productive collaborations across VGTI ONPRC OHSU clinical and basic-science units and external academic community government nonprofit and industry partners.
• Publish influential scholarship and communicate findings to scientific clinical and public audiences.
• Recruit supervise mentor and develop a high-performing research team including staff scientists research staff graduate students postdoctoral fellows and early-career investigators.
• Contribute to graduate professional or medical education and to the intellectual life of VGTI through seminars working groups team science and service.
• Foster a rigorous ethical collegial and inclusive research and training environment.
• Participate in Institute and University service appropriate to rank and experience.

• Ph.D. M.D. M.D./Ph.D. D.V.M. or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant discipline.
• Academic accomplishments appropriate for appointment at the Associate Professor or Professor level.
• Established record of high-impact scholarship in infectious disease immunology or a closely related field.
• Sustained record of peer-reviewed extramural research support as a principal investigator or equivalent scientific lead.
• Demonstrated independence in developing and directing a productive research program.
• Substantive experience with human translational research involving cohorts clinical samples patient-linked data clinical studies or closely related approaches.
• Record of effective collaboration across scientific or clinical disciplines.
• Demonstrated excellence in mentoring trainees and research staff.
• Commitment to research rigor responsible conduct collegiality and an environment in which people with varied backgrounds and perspectives can thrive.

• Experience leading multi-investigator grants research networks clinical-translational programs or cross-institutional collaborations.
• Research that complements VGTI strengths while adding new human-focused capabilities cohorts technologies or disease areas.
• Experience translating mechanistic findings into vaccines diagnostics biomarkers therapeutics clinical studies or public-health applications.
• Established collaborations with clinical investigators health systems communities industry government agencies or international research partners.
• For physician-scientists relevant specialty training and eligibility for Oregon licensure if clinical effort will be included.

Appointment and support

The appointment will include competitive start-up support research and office space access to OHSU and VGTI shared resources and opportunities for joint or secondary appointments aligned with the successful candidates expertise. The final distribution of research teaching service and any clinical effort will be negotiated at appointment. OHSU offers health coverage retirement options paid time off professional-development resources and other employee benefits.

Please include with your application:

• A cover letter describing interest in VGTI and the fit of the applicants research with this opportunity.
• A curriculum vitae including complete publication and funding history.
• A research statement of up to three pages describing major accomplishments current program and future plans at OHSU.
• A one-page statement describing mentoring philosophy and specific approaches to building an effective collaborative and inclusive research environment.
• Names and contact information for at least three professional references; references will be contacted only with the candidates permission.

Applications must be submitted through (Requisition ).

Questions may be directed to Afam Okoye VGTI Professor and Chair of the Search Committee at or Heidi White VGTI Administrative Director at .