Wanted: Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Division Director

Search Committee Members: Helen Sunshine, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Chair René Etcheberrigaray, Center for Scientific Review Irene Glowinski, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Sherry Mills, Office of Extramural Research, NIH Philip Cole, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Judith James, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Scott Miller, Yale University With the recent retirement of Dr. Michael Rogers, the search is now open for an outstanding individual to serve as director of our Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry (PPBC). This position offers significant opportunities to set scientific priorities, lead change and improve the biomedical research enterprise. PPBC has a very broad scope, ranging from basic science to clinical areas. It supports research in fields including chemistry, biochemistry, chemical biology, enzymology, glycoscience, biotechnology, pharmacology, pharmacogenomics, anesthesiology, sepsis, trauma, burn injury and wound healing.There are tremendous opportunities to build bridges among these scientific disciplines, such as employing chemical methods to build tools for the life sciences and medicine, understanding fundamental biochemistry in its in vivo context and using systems approaches to solve physiological and pharmacological problems. The division is organized into two branches, one focused on biochemistry and biorelated chemistry and the other o...
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