Faculty Position: Cancer Prevention and Screening Researcher

Mayo Clinic is seeking accomplished investigators to develop and lead high-impact research programs focused on advancing cancer prevention and screening research and clinical trials. These positions offer the opportunity to grow a collaborative, externally funded research program within a multidisciplinary comprehensive cancer center environment with strong clinical and population health research resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead an innovative, externally funded research program focused on cancer prevention and/or screening.
• Conduct rigorous research to develop, implement, adapt, scale, and/or sustain prevention and screening programs to improve cancer outcomes.
• Apply a range of research methodologies, such as translational and implementation research, pragmatic trials, clinical trials, hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies, natural experiments, and comparative effectiveness studies.
• Utilize quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches informed by relevant theories and frameworks.
• Disseminate research findings through peer-reviewed publications, presentations, grant applications, reports, tools, and practice-oriented products.
• Advance evidence-based cancer prevention and screening strategies and clinical trials across clinical, public health, community, and organizational settings.
• Evaluate factors influencing implementation success, including reach, adoption, fidelity, cost, and sustainability.
• Collaborate with clinical, operational, community, and public health stakeholders to integrate research findings into programs, workflows, models of care, and scalable interventions.
• Conduct research spanning cancer risk reduction, cancer-preventive vaccination, screening and early detection, precision prevention, risk communication, digital health, and healthcare delivery.
• Engage patients, caregivers, community organizations, healthcare partners, and public health agencies to inform and strengthen research initiatives.
• Develop and maintain multidisciplinary collaborations across Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, and with external academic, healthcare, public health, and community partners.
• Mentor faculty, trainees, students, and research staff, contribute to educational programs in cancer prevention and screening, implementation science, population science, and related disciplines.
• Contribute to Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center scientific priorities, strategic initiatives, shared resources, and Cancer Center Support Grant activities.
• Strengthen institutional capacity in cancer prevention, screening, dissemination and implementation, and population health research.
• Provide scientific leadership through participation in committees, research programs, faculty development, and interdisciplinary team-building efforts.

About the Organization

With 440 members and over 1,500 aligned cancer physicians working in six Cancer Research Programs and 15 Disease Groups, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center (MCCCC) is a global leader in cancer care, research, and education. Across its three enterprise sites (Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida), MCCCC physicians provide expert cancer diagnosis and treatment to more than 150,000 unique patients annually.

Mission: To inspire hope and promote health and healing through integrated research, clinical practice, and education, centered around the primary value: the needs of the patient come first.

Vision: To be a global cancer authority, transforming cancer research and practice to assure that discoveries, knowledge, and expertise are accessible to all, within and beyond our walls, at any place and anytime.

Goals:

• Cure cancers through translation of innovative transdisciplinary science to new means of prevention, early detection, interception, intervention, and unparalleled care delivery.
• Transform cancer research and practice using data platforms, digital technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent automation, creating new models for community and patient engagement, clinical trials, and patient-centered care delivery.
• Use Mayo Clinic Platform to engage patients and communities in cancer research and decentralized clinical trials.
• Educate, train, and mentor the next generation of cancer physicians, scientists, and leaders.

MCCCC has achieved exceptional performance metrics, including $61.2M in annual peer-reviewed funding ($41.1M from NCI) and $98.7M in industry and non-peer-reviewed funding. The Center holds over 80 multi-investigator programmatic grants, including 6 NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs). In 2025, MCCCC reported robust clinical trial accrual, with 2,624 therapeutic interventional trial accruals (12% of newly registered cases) and 1776 peer-reviewed publications, 24% in high-impact journals.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, DrPH, ScD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) in a field relevant to cancer prevention, screening, or cancer control, such as epidemiology, behavioral science, health services research, public health, implementation science, population health, health communication, biostatistics, informatics, health economics, nursing, medicine, psychology, sociology, or a related discipline.
• Research expertise in cancer prevention and/or cancer screening.
• Evidence of a productive research program appropriate to career stage, including peer-reviewed publications, scientific presentations, extramural funding, or funding potential.
• Experience designing or conducting rigorous research relevant to cancer prevention or screening, with interest in translating findings into clinical, public health, organizational, or community settings.
• Experience or strong potential for multidisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, teaching, or research workforce development.
• Commitment to improving health among all populations as relevant to the candidate’s research program.
• Academic accomplishments consistent with appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.
• National or international recognition, peer-reviewed research funding, or leadership in cancer prevention, screening, dissemination and implementation science, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading or supporting externally funded studies.
• Familiarity with implementation science frameworks, strategies, or outcome measures as applied to cancer prevention and screening.
• Experience partnering with cancer centers, academic medical centers, healthcare systems, public health agencies, community research networks, or community organizations.
• Interest or experience in translating research findings into practice, programs, tools, guidelines, or implementation strategies.
• Interest or experience incorporating health economics, informatics, digital health, artificial intelligence, systems science, or learning health-system approaches.
• Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and scientific communication skills.

Pay

The minimum starting salary for research specialties may range from $117,500 to $367,500. This range reflects full-time total base compensation prior to consideration of additional experience or duties. Pay for the selected candidate will vary based on specialty, experience, FTE, internal equity, or external market data.

Benefits

• Benefits eligible.

Schedule

• Full-time (80 hours per pay period).