Recruitment of New Stem Cell Biologist

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请响应RFA-OD-09-005，“恢复法案有限竞争：支持新的教师招聘，以加强通过生物医学研究核心中心的研究资源（P30）。我们建议在干细胞研究领域聘请一位新的助理教授，他对神经干细胞生物学或间充质干细胞生物学有特别的兴趣，在圣安东尼奥细胞和分子灵长类动物学研究所（SANOM），生物医学核心中心和UTSA生物学系担任研究员，担任终身助理教授。UTSA是本RFA一般指导方针下的合格机构，并且是本RFA作为西班牙裔服务机构的特定目标机构。该中心的使命是促进利用灵长类动物和其他相关模型系统的互动研究，以研究干细胞及其分化衍生物的基本生物学，特别是优化和测试人类患者潜在治疗应用的方案。过去的经验，涉及基因治疗或更近期的干细胞为基础的治疗应用过早的应用于人类患者已经证明了这些协议，以确保其疗效和安全性之前，在相关的动物模型系统的临床前测试，以人类适应的危险。我们为助理教授（终身教职）级别的新员工定义了一个极好的机会，具有非常强大的机构支持和在学术界和生物医学研究领域非常成功的职业发展潜力。我们承诺在持续的国家支持的工资，个人实验室空间，终身职位，获得所有资源提供给所有成员的SANDO，生物学系教师和/或UTSA科学学院教师，并有机会加入一个独特的干细胞生物学家团队，但高度相关的非人类灵长类动物模型的研究干细胞为基础的治疗方法。因此，该申请是通过寻求资金来响应RFA，这些资金将允许创建一个在未来一年中无法提供的职位（工作）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application responds to RFA-OD-09-005, "Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30). We propose to hire a new Assistant Professor in the area of Stem Cell Research, with a specific interest in either Neurological Stem Cell Biology or Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology as an Investigator in the San Antonio Institute for Cellular and Molecular Primatology (SAICMP), a Biomedical Core Center, and the Department of Biology at UTSA, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. UTSA is an Eligible Institution under the general guidelines of this RFA, and is a specifically targeted institution for this RFA as an Hispanic-Serving Institution. The mission of the SAICMP is to promote interactive research utilizing primate and other relevant model systems to investigate the basic biology of stem cells and their differentiated derivatives, and especially to optimize and test protocols for potential therapeutic application in human patients. Past experiences involving the premature application of either gene therapy or more recent stem-cell-based therapeutic applications to human patients have demonstrated the dangers of adapting these protocols to humans prior to ensuring their efficacy and safety by pre-clinical testing in relevant animal model systems. We define an excellent opportunity for a new hire at the Assistant Professor (tenure-track) level, with very strong institutional support and potential for development of a highly successful career in academia and biomedical research. We commit extensive institutional support in terms of ongoing state-supported salary, individual laboratory space, a tenure-track position, access to all resources afforded to all members of the SAICMP, the Department of Biology faculty, and/or the College of Sciences faculty at UTSA, and the opportunity to join a unique team of stem cell biologists working with a unique, but highly relevant nonhuman primate model for studies of stem-cell-based therapeutic approaches. Thus, this application is responsive to the RFA by seeking funds that will allow the creation of a position (job) that will not otherwise be made available during the coming year.