The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Physiology invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment on 1 October 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Department has a distinguished record in physiological research, and numbers Michael Foster, John Newport Langley, Edgar Adrian, Alan Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley among its former members.
The appointment will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the University.
Further information may be obtained from the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT (email ibise@admin.cam.ac.uk), to whom a letter of application should be sent, together with details of current and future research plans, a curriculum vitae, a publications list, and form PD18 with details of two referees, so as to reach him no later than 27 February 2009.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Bill Harris, Head of Department, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience (tel. 01223 333772, email harris@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk).
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