Faculty Position in Infectious Disease

The Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health (IDGH) at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University (https://vet.tufts.edu/infectious-disease-global-health) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Infectious Disease. The successful candidate will promote a team approach through their scientific research, teaching, and service as part of a strong faculty whose research interests span bacterial, viral, and parasite science and medicine in both animals and humans. Candidates should have research expertise that builds on core strengths in the department and the school more broadly, and that intersects and complements departmental themes in infectious disease and global health, including wildlife medicine. For this position, we particularly seek candidates who use innovative approaches, including computational and epidemiological or modeling, to investigate molecular, cellular, and/or organismal topics in high priority pathogens.

IDGH faculty research strengths in infectious disease include disease ecology and evolution focused on viral and tick-borne disease and including wildlife research, neglected tropical diseases, enteric infections, development of disease models, and vaccine and therapeutic development including microbiome-centered approaches. Tufts University is home to a variety of strong core facilities and specialized shared resources that are available for infectious disease research at Cummings School. These include the New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory - a BSL-3 biocontainment research space (https://vet.tufts.edu/tufts-new-england-regional-biosafety-laboratory), flow cytometry, and a recently established Comparative Pathology and Genomics Shared Resource (https://vet.tufts.edu/comparative-pathology-genomics-shared-resource). An active clinical hospital and diagnostic lab provide additional opportunity for material samples and project collaboration. Tufts University is home to the School of Medicine, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, and the Freidman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. The University and Cummings School are located in proximity of a rich biomedical and infectious disease academic research and industry environment.

The successful candidate is expected to establish an extramurally funded research program centered around basic and translational science. The successful applicant should have interest in mentoring and training graduate, professional and postdoctoral students at Cummings School as an integral part of their research program. Teaching in the professional and graduate training programs of Cummings School in areas of expertise will be expected.