SUMC Postdoctoral Position Openings

Postdoctoral Researcher and Teacher

Shantou University Medical College(SUMC) has a postdoctoral research station in clinical medicine, which now has openings for postdoctoral researcher and teacher.

1. Qualifications

Within 3 years of obtaining a doctorate degree in Clinical Medicine.

Licensed as a practicing physician.

Strong clinical practice of specialized skills (please list your skills)

authored 2 or more IF≥3 papers in formal publications.

or Directed 2 or more major research projects.

or authored and published at least 1 IF≥3 paper, in addition to directed 1 major research project.

or authored and published at least 1 IF≥5 paper.

2. Job Requirement

Postdoctoral research.

Provide guidance to residents in training.

In launching and engaging your research project, the position will be a full time, total committed career development position.

Actively engage first-line clinical works as required.

3. Salary and support programs

Postdoctoral Researcher and Teacher will receive annually 160,000 RMB, plus supporting incentive fund $160,000 RMB. (For candidates who do not take on teaching requirement, supporting incentive fund will not be available.) After pass a postdoctoral mid-term and outbound assessment, you will be able to apply another postdoctoral supporting project fund from Guangdong Province, which compensates the postdoctoral fellow 40,000 annually in living expenses (for no more than 2 years). In addition, there are also 40,000 research launching fund from Li Ka Shing Foundation.

Upon passing outbound assessment, postdoctoral researcher/teacher fellow should agree to stay and work for SUMC or affiliated hospitals, in order to enjoy the benefits of above offers.

4. Introduction of SUMC

SUMC’s Ph.D. program offers Clinical Medicine studies in 4 major fields: Pathology and pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Immunology. It has 3 postdoctoral research stations: Basic medicine, clinical medicine, and Pharmacology. Besides, SUMC has 5 affiliated hospitals, including 2 general hospitals, a cancer hospital, and a joint International Ophthalmology Center and Mental Health Center with Hong Kong. It also has 5 other non-affiliated hospitals to support teaching and resident trainings. Besides clinic treatment, these hospitals are important base for clinical research and teaching.

SUMC actively engage academic exchange at national and international level. Through East-West Alliance Symposium, there is research cooperation between SUMC and Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, Oxford and Cambridge University, University of Alberta, University of Manitoba, St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, etc. as well as with the national famous medical school of Shantou. In September 2007, SUMC joined efforts with Canadian University Health Network and University of Hong Kong School of Medicine, established the International Institute for Infection and Immunology, a totally new international joint research platform. Its research team members have published research papers and articles on Nature, Science, and New England Journal of Medicine, etc.

The Shantou University also worked with Israel Polytechnic Institute in building of Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, officially launched research projects on Biomedical fields. The specialist teams of Cancer, Neurology, Immunology, Public Health and other fields are formed, research is funded by Li Ka Shing Foundation, aimed to resolve key issues in life science and medicine. Also, SUMC and its affiliated Cancer hospital will learn from US National Human Genome research center’s advanced model and the platform of high-end detection technology, to provide cancer patients accurate diagnosis and targeted treatment.

For more details please visit our website http://syrsc.med.stu.edu.cn/new/info08.asp