Career Development

A useful tool for career development is a Individual Development Plan. Download one here to get started: Postdoc_IDP

We have a mentoring program this spring that is open for you to participate in, provided in part by the WFDC.
The program format will be either a group mentor session or individual mentoring on a one to one basis. You decide which program you would like to be part of.
If you are interested in participating please send an email to postdoc@uams.edu stating which program you would like. The PostDoc IDP (Individual Development Plan) is for you to fill out and hand into the mentors along with your current CV by mid October.

Useful Links for Job Hunting

NIH Award Trends

CRISP Database

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty

Alternative Careers in Science

Bored with the bench? There are many career options out there for scientists beyond the traditional. Here are a couple of useful links to get you started:

American Physiological Society Career Options

Nature Jobs Career Options

Available Positions

Position available Spring 2008

The project will investigate the role of the serine protease "fibroblast activation protein-alpha" (FAP) in facilitating metastasis by enabling breast cancer cells to thrive in the diverse microenvironments that they encounter as they leave the breast and colonize other organs. In particular, the potential production of pro-angiogenic and pro-invasive fragments of type I collagen by the proteolytic functions of FAP and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) will be investigated. In addition, the potential stabilization of metastatic microemboli by FAP proteolytic activity will also be explored. The successful fellow will become proficient in animal models of human breast cancer as well as in vivo and in vitro methods for determining tumor invasion and metastasis.

For more information contact:
Thomas Kelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, COM
Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
4301 W. Markham, Slot 753
Little Rock, AR 72205-7199
T. (501) 686-6401
F. (501) 686-6517
e-mail KellyThomasJ-at-uams.edu (replace -at- with @)

To post available Postdoctoral Positions on the UAMS-PS website please send an email to postdoc@uams.edu