Jobs
Biostatistics Director
Posted 13 Oct 2023
Employer
UC San Diego - Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS)
Location
San Diego, California
Principal Investigator
Contact
Applications must be submitted through the University of California San Diego's Academic Personnel RECRUIT system at https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03708.
Description
The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (HWSPH) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) within the School of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego have appointed a search for a joint-appointed associate or full professor rank faculty position in HWSPH Biostatistics and Neurosciences, with emphasis on clinical trials design, methodology, and conduct.
The HWSPH has focal areas of biostatistics and bioinformatics, climate & environmental health, community health services and preventive medicine, epidemiology, health equity and justice, global health, health behavior, health policy, public mental health, and technology and precision health, and offers teaching and student mentoring opportunities in its bachelor's programs in public health, M.P.H., Ph.D. in public health (administered jointly with SDSU), and M.S. and Ph.D. Further, the school has a preventive medicine residency program. The school has extensive collaborations with the School of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, Jacobs School of Engineering, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Rady School of Management, Skaggs School of Pharmacy, and with other partners across the UC San Diego campus.
Partnerships with the community and health agencies are fundamental to the school, which is comprised of more than 125 primary faculty and academics, 25 secondary faculty, and 200 staff members and provides instruction and mentorship to 700 BSPH majors and 225 postgraduate students, and the School’s faculty and academics hold ~$125M total awarded grants and contracts.
The ADCS is a progressive, multicenter clinical trials consortium created to provide an operational framework for Phase 1-3 pharmacological and behavioral trials and multisite cohort studies and consists of 7 cores, 22 committees, 39 research sites that are members of the consortium/Steering Committee, with an additional 30+ research sites located across the U.S. and Canada that participate in one or more clinical trials coordinated by the ADCS. The ADCS is funded by federal and private grants, contracts, and gift support. The ADCS is a unique academic coordinating center at UCSD that collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to advance its mission to discover, develop, and test new drugs and lifestyle-based therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and those living with dementia. The current funding for the ADCS’ ongoing research program is approximately $30M per year. The ADCS is part of the UCSD commitment to excellence in ADRD in collaboration with multiple institutes and centers. UCSD is enhanced by strong partnerships with scientists from the Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, and the Sanford-Burnham Institute.
The Department of Neurosciences’ mission is to innovate and advance understanding of our nervous system to alleviate the suffering of neurological disease.
The successful candidate will serve as the ADCS director of biostatistics, including leading statistical activities designed to advance its multicenter clinical trials pipeline. In this role, the candidate will focus efforts on leading statistical analyses, developing methodologies, creating statistical analyses plans, and leading the analyses of topline results and primary and final analyses for active ADCS clinical trials. He or she will collaborate with internal and external ADCS partners to develop funding proposals and mature programmatic ideas. The candidate will also serve on the ADCS Data and Sample Sharing Committee. In addition to the ADCS role, the candidate is expected to engage more broadly as faculty in the HWSPH and in the Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, and beyond, including in collaborative science. Further, they will be encouraged to have a PIed extramurally funded biostatistical methodology research program in the HWSPH.
The position will include teaching in Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, with additional opportunities available in the Department of Neurosciences and School of Medicine.
More information can be found at neurosciences.ucsd.edu.
The successful candidate will have an opportunity to apply for an open ADCS Endowed Chair position. The appointment will be at the associate or full professor rank and will be based on the candidate’s background and experience. Series will include 50 percent Ladder Rank (Tenure-Track) / 50 percent in-residence. The appointment requires candidates to be partially self-funded with secured extramural funding, e.g., with grants.
Requirements
Candidates must have a Ph.D., Dr.P.H., or other doctoral degree focused in biostatistics, statistics, or a related field.
Candidates must have demonstrated scientific and biostatistical expertise in clinical trials design, methodology, and conduct with peer-reviewed publications in reputable journals appropriate for appointment rank and step. Candidates with established domain expertise in epidemiology, neurobiology, pharmacology, biomarkers, or statistics focused on behavioral neurology/cognitive neuroscience related to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders are preferred. Candidates with methodological research expertise in biostatistics are preferred.