Huntington, West Virginia
Posted: 20-Jun-25
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 35250
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to guide and expand a vibrant and collaborative research environment aligned with key institutional priorities—including obesity-related diseases, addiction, aging, and rural health. The role supports faculty in securing extramural funding, advancing translational research, and building nationally recognized research programs. It also offers the chance to promote a culture of teaching excellence, enhance the biomedical sciences curriculum, and foster interdisciplinary education.
The Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences will guide the department’s research direction, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and support faculty recruitment, retention, and development. The Chair will provide strategic, academic, administrative, and fiscal leadership to advance the department’s mission -- and working closely with the Dean, will lead efforts to expand nationally recognized research programs, especially in the school’s mission areas of obesity-related diseases, addiction, aging, and rural health.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be a collaborative and visionary leader with a strong record of sustained, externally funded research in the biomedical sciences. Candidates should have experience in fiscal management and academic program oversight, as well as a proven ability to build and maintain a nationally recognized, grant-funded research program. A regional or national reputation in biomedical research and/or medical education is essential. Experience with interdisciplinary research or teaching initiatives is highly valued. Candidates must possess academic credentials appropriate for appointment at the rank of full Professor with tenure, and hold an MD, PhD, or equivalent terminal degree.
The Organization
The Department of Biomedical Sciences is the sole basic science department within the medical school and serves as the primary academic home for nearly 50 full-time faculty members. Today, research within the department focuses on addiction sciences, cardiovascular disease, obesity and obesity-related diseases, cancer, infectious diseases, sleep disorders and toxicology. The department interacts with faculty from across campus, other professional programs and clinical faculty. The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University is a community-based, Veterans Affairs affiliated medical school dedicated to providing high quality medical education and postgraduate training programs to foster a skilled physician workforce to meet the unique healthcare needs of West Virginia and central Appalachia, The School of Medicine partners with 19 hospitals throughout the region to full its mission of education, service and care.
The Region
Based in Huntington, West Virginia, Marshall University is in an attractive tri-state region bordering Kentucky and Ohio. West Virginia is known as the outdoor recreation capital of the eastern U.S. The relationship between the university and Huntington is extraordinarily positive and mutually beneficial. Marshall serves as a culture center while also playing a major role in rural health care delivery, improvement of elementary and secondary education, and regional economic development. Marshall’s economic impact in the region is estimated at $1.07 billion annually—a 14:1 return on public dollars invested in the university.
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