Research Faculty Position - Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences

at  St Jude Childrens Research Hospital

SJCRH

The Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is recruiting for psychologists and scientists with interest in building a clinical-research program with application to diverse groups of children catastrophic illness. The position can be filled at the Assistant, Associate or Full faculty level and can be within the Clinician-Scientist track (up to 80% protected research time) or the Research track (95% protected research time) based on candidate preference, experience and goals.
St. Jude is a tertiary care hospital focused on treatment of catastrophic illnesses of childhood including cancer, sickle cell disease and other hematologic disorders, HIV and other infectious diseases, endocrinology and neurological disorders. Our mission is to advance cures and means of prevention through research discovery and knowledge generation with potential to impact treatment advances.
The Department includes 24 faculty across clinical, clinician-scientist and research tracks and houses robust clinical and research training programs at the post- doctoral fellowship (NIH T32 funded), pre-doctoral internship and graduate student practicum levels. The Department also maintains comprehensive clinical-research and data science resources. The Psychology Clinic is staffed by pediatric psychologists, neuropsychologists and masters-level examiners. Psychology is a highly valued discipline within interdisciplinary clinical and research teams and is well-integrated into institutional medical care and research programs.
Shared institutional resources are readily available to our faculty – biorepository and clinical biomarkers lab, biostatistics, applied bioinformatics, proteomics and metabolomics and a variety of brain and body imaging resources (MRI, fMRI, DTI, MRS, fNIRS, PET), among other resources.

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