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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON Open Rank (Assistant/Associate/Full-Professor) x2013; Precision Health in Arlington, Texas
The University of Texas at Arlington (and#x201C;UTAand#x201D;) is pleased to announce a cluster hiring initiative for three tenured and tenure-track faculty positions across mid- and established-career stages to advance the universityand#x2019;s growing research enterprise in large-scale precision medicine, clinical AI, and genomics. This cluster forms a cornerstone of UTAand#x2019;s RISE 100 initiative and its strategic expansion in Precision Health and translational health sciences.Position OverviewUTA is launching a transformative, interdisciplinary cluster hire in AI-enabled precision medicine within UTAand#x2019;s Center for Innovation in Health Informatics. This initiative integrates innovative programs in health-systemand#x2013;scale genome-informed care; clinical natural language processing and large language models for clinical data capture and communication; and hospital-grade AI implementation frameworks and system architecture into a unified translational ecosystem. This effort is conducted through a deep strategic partnership with Cook Childrenand#x2019;s Health Care System, one of the nationand#x2019;s largest pediatric health systems. Through collaboration with the Research IT team at Cook Childrenand#x2019;s, faculty members will have access to enterprise-scale clinical data, EHR-integrated research platforms, production-adjacent AI infrastructure, diverse pediatric cohorts, and real-world clinical workflows that enable rapid translation from genomic insights through language intelligence to live clinical deployment.Investigators with translational research programs spanning one or more stages of a comprehensive clinical discovery-to-deployment platform are strongly encouraged to apply. This integrated pipeline spans: continuous clinical genomic data re-analysis and#x2192; massive parallel clinical biomarker postprocessing and#x2192; clinical NLP and LLM tool development (history-taking, visit summarization, and clinicianand#x2013;patient communication) and#x2192; AI integration frameworks, EHR adapters, and orchestration layers and#x2192; validation, monitoring, governance, and safety and#x2192; real-world clinical deployment, longitudinal evaluation, and continuous improvement. Each stage embeds big data science and implementation science at scale, regulatory readiness, bias mitigation, equity considerations, and measurable patient outcomes from inception.The appointed faculty will hold a primary appointment in the College of Engineering while being embedded in the Center for Innovation in Health Informatics, with a secondary appointment at Cook Childrenand#x2019;s Health Care System. Successful candidates will be expected to build and lead independent, externally funded research programs and to contribute to the broader academic mission of UTA, including research, teaching, mentorship of graduate students and clinical trainees, and service. Competitive startup packages, dedicated research personnel, access to high-performance computing, enterprise clinical datasets, and strong health-system partnerships provide an exceptional environment for faculty seeking to build nationally recognized programs at the intersection of precision genomics, clinical language intelligence, and AI-driven healthcare implementation.https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/engineering/researchResponsibilitiesThe ideal candidate will be an internationally recognized scientist or physician-scientist with a proven record of impactful, productive research in one or more of the core domains and a strong commitment to translating research into real-world clinical care. UTA welcomes candidates whose programs focus deeply on specific diseases or disorder domains and who have achieved international recognition within those areas. At the same time, successful candidates will demonstrate a clear vision for developing approaches, methods, or platforms thatand#x2014;while grounded in their domain expertiseand#x2014;can generalize and sca e across multiple diseases and clinical contexts. UTA is particularly interested in applicants whose programs bridge the basic, translational, and clinical continuum, with a strong history of support from NIH, NSF, ARPA-H, PCORI, and industry sponsors. Candidates should demonstrate scientific leadership through high impact publications, invited presentations, a track record of mentoring PhD students, postdoctoral scientists, and junior faculty, and proven experience in multidisciplinary team leadership and real-world clinical or EHR-based environments.University NotablesThe Center for Innovation in Health Informatics accelerates the integration of advanced data science, engineering, and clinical analytics to transform healthcare delivery and precision medicine. CIHI develops scalable digital health solutionsand#x2014;including AI-driven diagnostics, multimodal data integration, and population-scale genomics infrastructureand#x2014;to support improved clinical decisionand#x2011;making and real-world implementation. Through partnerships with Cook Childrenand#x2019;s and leading national research institutions, CIHI serves as a hub for translational informatics innovation across North Texas. https://cihi.uta.edu/The Institute of Biomanufacturing and Precision Medicine for North Texas (IMPRINT), first funded by the Texas Legislature in the 2024-25 biennium, is dedicated to making UTA a leader in advanced biomanufacturing and precision medicine innovation. IMPRINT combines biotechnology, biomanufacturing, precision medicine, health data sciences, and entrepreneurship to create a one-of-a-kind hub of innovation to enhance biomanufacturing, improve health outcomes, grow life science startups, and catalyze regional economic development in North Texas. https://imprint.uta.edu/Biomanufacturing Center: To help support the facilities needs associated with Biomanufacturing, UTA is established a Biomanufacturing Center in Pegasus Park in Dallas. This 5,003 sq. ft. facility with $5M in biomanufacturing equipment, established in partnership with Texas AandM Engineering Experiment Station, offers experiential training and process engineering, supporting translational research and clinical trial pathways. Process engineering includes upstream, downstream, analytical, and regulatory. Known as the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing 2 (NCTM2), the center provides automation and robotics, staging.UTAand#x2019;s North Texas Genome Center, Life Science Core Facility, and Shimadzu Centers for Advanced Analytical Chemistry and Bio-Molecular imaging provide excellent access to instrumentation, service, and support for generation and analysis of a broad range of genomics, imaging, and analytical instruments and analyses. https://www.northtexasgenomecenter.com/ Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies is a public-private partnership that provides UTA faculty access to over $25 million in state-of-the-art research instruments and facilities. https://shimadzuinstitute.org/Faculty members have excellent access to computational resources, including Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and multiple HPCs on campus, including some GPU-heavy clusters as well as the molecular biology, flow cytometry, and imaging equipment in the Life Sciences Core Facility https://lscf.uta.edu/menu/$170M remodel and expansion of the Life Sciences Building will be complete in November 2027. The project includes a new addition and renovation of the existing building, adding modernized instructional labs and classrooms, adding research and#x201C;Lab Neighborhoods,and#x201D; and a multi-story student engagement area, all aimed at creating a collaborative environment.University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) https://utari.uta.edu/Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (CARIDA) https://carida.uta.edu/Division of Data Science, College of Science, The University of Texas at Arlington https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/science/depar