Assistant Professor - HealthcareMedical Packaging
Assistant Professor - HealthcareMedical Packaging
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The Department of Food Nutrition and Packaging Sciences (FNPS) is seeking a visionary researcher and teacher to become the globally recognized expert on healthcare packaging for containment and protection of products through sterilization storage shipment use and disposal. Clemson University has much of the infrastructure required to be successful in the design development testing and optimization of packaging for medical devices pharmaceutical products and drug delivery systems.
Clemson University is an R1 Research institution with comprehensive and stateoftheart resources.
FNPS staffed laboratories include material analysis cast and blown film production extrusion blown molding injection molding semirigid plastic packaging conversion thermoforming lamination and much more. Campus includes a fully equipped machine shop to customize tooling a dynamics lab to test structures for transport food and thermal processing laboratories with equipment such as a Texture Analyzer (TA/TX) CT3 Brookfield Texture Analyzer and GC/MS wet lab nutrition analysis labs shelflife analysis capabilities food safety sensory lab and health experts. FNPS design and prototyping capabilities are second to none helping translate new materials into marketready concepts. Packaging analytical equipment includes DSC TMA TGA Instron universal testing machine coefficient of friction contact angle FTIR melt indexer haze meter gloss meter hot tack tester heat sealers impulse sealers induction sealer Elmendorf tear testing dart drop testing environmental impact software and an extensive list of packaging industry relationships.
The successful candidate for this position will focus their time on biomedical packaging research and on developing and teaching an undergraduate and a graduate course in the fundamentals and advances in biomedical packaging.
The successful candidate is expected to:
Support the Health Innovation focus of the Clemson Forward Strategic Plan
Position Clemson University as the ultimate research partner of the booming medical/biotechnology industry in South Carolina the United States and globally
Develop and teach courses in health care packaging to educate a competitive and unique workforce prepared to support the industry and its future needs
Obtain grants and industrial contracts with packaging manufactures and suppliers and strengthen collaborative grant applications focused on biomedical technology development (NIH NSF DoD Foundations) as well as innovation opportunities (IP licenses startups)
Partner on project and research grants with other departments such as:
o Biomedical engineering
o Material science and engineering o Industrial engineering (human factors)
o Chemistry o Physics (sterilization)
o Environmental and Earth Sciences (sustainability)
o Nursing (Clemson University Prisma Health Partnership)
Support the work of the food nutrition and packaging sciences and bioengineering education and research initiative
Publish work in relevant peerreviewed journals
Supervise and graduate M.S. and Ph.D. students
Qualifications Ph.D. in packaging science bioengineering or other engineering/science disciplines Experience with biomedical technology including medical devices pharmaceutical products drug delivery systems and any goods used in the healthcare industry Expertise in sterilization methods and materials specifically ISO 11607; Packaging for terminally sterilized medical devices and EN 8681; Packaging Materials and systems for medical devices which are to be sterilized
Preferred experience in Leachables and extractables Human factors surrounding medical professionals and end user interface with packaged medical devices and pharmaceuticals Sustainable packaging solutions for hospital environmental responsibility Cold chain or temperaturecontrolled packaging Effect of distribution on pharmaceutical efficacy Risk analysis Demonstrated ability to publish in international peerreviewed scientific journals Capability to work proactively within collaborative multidisciplinary teams is critical Experience in proposal preparation and project management Excellent communication skills (oral & written) are essential
Salary is competitive and commensurate with background and experience. An attractive fringe benefits package is available.
Employment Type
Full Time
