Assistant Professor

Position Information

**Position/Rank** Assistant Professor

**Department** 00279 - Medicinal Chemistry

**City** Salt Lake City, UT

**Track** Tenure Track

**New Position to Begin** 07/01/2026

**Details**
The University of Utah Department of Medicinal Chemistry invites applicants for a tenure track assistant professor position. Potential areas of interest include but are not limited to design and discovery of pharmaceutical drugs and chemical probes, synthetic medicinal chemistry, synthetic biology, computational methods in drug discovery, natural product-inspired drug design, nucleic acid chemistry, screening technologies, and innovative applications of chemistry at the interface of cancer, infectious disease, immunology, neuroscience or metabolism.

Candidates will be evaluated for their capacity to develop an independent, internationally visible, and well-funded research program, and exemplify effective research trainee m...