Open Rank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Job Info

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Department:

Radiology - Research - 412802

Posting Open Date:

09/01/2023

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Position Type:

Permanent Faculty

Working Title:

Open Rank

Appointment Type:

Open Rank

Vacancy ID:

FAC0004664

Full-time/Part-time:

Full-Time Permanent

Hours per week:

40

FTE:

1

Position Location:

North Carolina, US

Proposed Start Date:

01/01/2024

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

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.

Position Summary:

The Department of Radiology and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking applicants with strong MR physics background and research efforts focusing on quantitative MR imaging for a faculty position in the Department of Radiology. By quantitatively measuring tissue relaxivities, quantitative MR imaging approaches, such as MR Fingerprinting, have recently been demonstrated capable of uncovering biological insights into disease processes that may be difficult to reveal using conventional weighted images. Clinical applications using quantitative imaging methods have shown potential efficacy to improve disease diagnoses. This search aims to identify a strong candidate whose research focuses on developing novel quantitative MR imaging approaches capable of obtaining measures of tissue relaxivities for both clinical and research applications. The candidates will work with multidisciplinary teams to integrate these techniques into clinical and preclinical studies.

The State of North Carolina has made significant investment to establish the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, an institution center dedicated to imaging research. The BRIC houses a comprehensive collection of human and animal imaging devices. Of particularly relevant to this position are the 3T whole body MR scanners, hybrid PET/MR scanner, whole body 7T MR scanner, and 9.4T small animal MR scanners. The applicant will join a multidisciplinary imaging research team consists of investigators with diverse yet complementary expertise, including imaging acquisition (MR, PET, SPECT, CT, ultrasound, and optical imaging), image analysis, imaging statistics and informatics, imaging hardware (MR, CT, and optical imaging), and clinical applications/translations. The candidates are expected to build a strong and independent research program focusing on quantitative MR imaging.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Qualified candidates must have a doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering or equivalent areas and are expected to have a solid MR physics background and outstanding record in developing novel quantitative MR imaging approaches. The successful candidate is expected to develop independent research program focusing on quantitative MR imaging research program.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Preferred candidates will have experience on sequence programming, particularly on the Siemens platform and technical expertise on developing novel quantitative MR imaging methods.

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities:

Not Applicable.

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