Assistant Professor, tenure-track

Academic
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Job Category

Faculty Bargaining
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Job Title

Assistant Professor, tenure-track
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Department

Department of Medicine | Faculty of Medicine | Provost and VP Academic (Anita Palepu)
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Posting End Date

October 20, 2026

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

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Job End Date

June 30, 2034

The expected salary for this position is between $140,000 and 160,000 per annum.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Department of Medicine and the School of Biomedical Engineering at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for a Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in Global Health Engineering and Equitable Health Technologies, addressing the Impact+ strategic priority area of Health, including Biotechnology. The successful candidate will be appointed to a tenure-track faculty position and the home department will be the Department of Medicine.

The Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program is a one-time initiative designed to support institutions in attracting internationally based Early Career Researchers to Canada. Emerging Leaders will receive research funding and institutional supports to advance transformative research in Canada’s strategic priority areas, build partnerships across sectors and borders, and translate their research into applications and impacts that benefit Canadians and the world. Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders are six-year positions valued at $100,000 annually, renewable once for an additional six years, intended for exceptional emerging scholars who have the potential to lead in their fields. Applicants must be early-career researchers and be eligible to hold a full-time, tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor at UBC.

Under the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program, nominees must be working and residing outside Canada when the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada award (https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs.html) is formally accepted (July 1st 2026). Applicants may apply regardless of their current location; however, candidates selected for nomination must meet this eligibility requirement on the award acceptance date in order to proceed. Expatriate Canadians wishing to relocate to Canada are welcome to apply.

The UBC Department of Medicine provides excellence in research, teaching and clinical services related to the nature, cause, prevention, and treatment of adult diseases. As the largest department in the Faculty of Medicine, comprised of eighteen Divisions, and over twelve hundred faculty and staff located throughout the Province of British Columbia, the Department of Medicine is committed to ensuring the success of learners and faculty, and to contributing to the health of the Province of British Columbia.

The School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME) is a partnership between the Faculties of Applied Science and Medicine, established in 2017. The School is a nucleus for education and training, research, and innovation in biomedical engineering, creating new knowledge, new academic and training programs, and fostering translation and innovation. Its vision is to transform health and healthcare for all, achieved through innovative research and education at the convergence of engineering, medicine and biology. Through collaborative, innovative, and interdisciplinary approaches and building on UBC’s academic and research excellence, the School of Biomedical Engineering aspires to be a global leader in biomedical engineering research, education and translation. The SBME has two locations on Vancouver’s campus, the Gordon B Shrum building and the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). For more information about the School of Biomedical Engineering, please visit https://www.bme.ubc.ca/ .

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Key Expectations of the Position

Reporting jointly to the Head of the UBC Department of Medicine and the Director of the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering, the successful candidate will establish and lead a research program in Global Health Engineering and Equitable Health Technologies. Consistent with the broad goals of global health, namely improving health and achieving health equity for all populations, the position seeks individuals who apply engineering, technology, and innovation to address important health challenges and reduce inequities in health outcomes and access to care in Canada and globally.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Lead a research program focused on the development, translation, implementation, and evaluation of innovative technologies that improve health outcomes and advance health equity across diverse populations, healthcare systems, and resource settings.

• Advance research at the intersection of engineering, health sciences, clinical medicine, public health, and health systems.

• Develop technologies and solutions that address unmet needs in disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, rehabilitation, and healthcare delivery.

• Pursue research in areas such as medical devices, diagnostics, biosensors, wearables, therapeutics, biotechnology-enabled innovations, digital health, artificial intelligence, data science, and other engineering and technology-based approaches that improve health and advance health equity.

• Develop and evaluate technologies in partnership with healthcare providers, communities, patients, health authorities, public health organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions are effective, scalable, and responsive to real-world needs.

• Leverage the Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry (https://biodevicefoundry.bme.ubc.ca/) and other UBC research infrastructure to accelerate technology development, prototyping, validation, and deployment.

• Contribute to teaching activities within the Department of Medicine and the School of Biomedical Engineering, including undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering education and interdisciplinary initiatives such as the Department of Medicine's Data Science and Health (DASH) Research Excellence Cluster.

• Mentor and train undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate learners.

• Contribute service to the Department of Medicine, the School of Biomedical Engineering, the Faculties of Medicine and Applied Science, the University, and the broader academic and professional communities.

• Collaborate across disciplines to advance strategic priorities in research, education, innovation, and translation.

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Minimum and Preferred Qualifications of Candidates

Candidates must hold an MD and/or PhD, as part of the UBC requirement, and be eligible for appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor at UBC. Candidates must hold, or be eligible to obtain, registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Limited Licensee with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC). Applicants from engineering disciplines, as well as quantitatively intensive fields such as mathematics, computer science, quantitative neuroscience, physics, and related disciplines, are encouraged to apply, provided they are eligible for registration with EGBC. Information regarding Limited License eligibility is available at: https://www.egbc.ca/Registration/Individual-Registrants/How-to-Apply/Professional-Registration/ProfessionalLicensee.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Evidence of excellence, or strong potential for excellence, in research, teaching, mentorship, and scholarly activity.

• An established or emerging research program in Global Health Engineering, Equitable Health Technologies, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, or a related field.

• Expertise in the development, translation, eval