Molecular & Human Genetics – Administration (Assistant Professor)

Title: 

Molecular & Human Genetics – Administration (Assistant Professor)


Division: 

Molecular and Human Genetics

Work Location: 

Houston, TX

Requisition ID: 

13394



Summary

 

The responsibilities of the Assistant Professor will be to support and lead the overall success of the REJOIN program. The Restoring Joint Health and Function to Reduce Pain (RE-JOIN) Consortium will be a new program within The NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative. The goal of REJOIN will be to define the innervation of the different articular and peri-articular tissues that collectively form the joint (including bone, cartilage, synovium, joint capsule, ligament, tendon, fascia and muscle), by sensory neurons that mediate the sensation of pain. Knowledge about the types and distribution of neurites in joint tissues will facilitate the identification of key receptors and mediators that induce pain by activating specific sensory neurons. These mediators and their receptors will provide novel targets for reducing pain.

 

The role will be the overall Administrative Director of the Administrative Core of the REJOIN consortium. This will be to advance and implement the process and protocols of the overall consortium and involves working with the PIs of the consortium project (currently planned as 5), the NIH program, and the data management core. This should compose approximately 50% of the Assistant Professor’s effort.  The remaining 50% of the effort will be the overall Project Manager of our REJOIN Center at BCM working with the contact PI and other faculty as co-PIs in implementing the goals of our project. In this capacity, they will provide operational leadership and support as well as scientific input to ensure tasks and milestones for each group are established and met.

 

The Assistant Professor will also be responsible in the scientific reporting, progress reports, etc., and other communications of the Center.

 

 

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

 

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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