Organoid Director, Assistant Professor of Research

Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics 

Weill Cornell Medicine is actively seeking an Assistant Professor of Research. In this position, you will lead the Organoid team within the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM). Your research and work will focus on using patient-derived cancer models to study the functional impact of genetic and epigenetic alterations in preclinical models.

This role will act as a subject matter expert within the EIPM organoid platform, whose primary aim is to optimize and expand the use of state-of-the-art technology and make it available to all WCM scientists and clinicians. Specifically, you and your team will work alongside laboratory managers and adopt cellular screening and imaging methods to optimize the development of new patient-derived tumor organoids to expand our current biobank to grow and develop more and better cancer models.  This biobank will fuel our High Throughput Drug Screening platform that aims to bridge the gap between drug development and patient treatment. 

In addition to bench research, you will present the platform’s work at research meetings, as well as at national and international scientific meetings. You will be responsible for developing proposals for external funding, including grants and industry agreements. 

Furthermore, in your role as Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics, you will mentor postdoctoral scientists, medical and graduate students during research rotations, and advise on the development and implementation of scholarly projects within the lab.  

• Interested applicants should possess a Ph.D. and deep expertise in using engineered cell lines for advanced screening and other disease modeling.
• Applicants should have a background in molecular and cellular methods-- and a record of applying this expertise to develop and improve new organoid-based models for predictive biology.
•  Applicants should also have a track record of collaborative and interdisciplinary research as this new position will be expected to lead EIPMs interdisciplinary research program focused on organoids.

The minimum compensation for this role is $116,631 and the maximum is $160,815.