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I am writing to strongly recommend the promotion of Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, Ph.D., to the rank of Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Investigator-Educator track. Dr. Sluis-Cremer’s accom-plishments as a biochemist, translational scientist, and educator are exceptional and most deserving of promotion to this rank. Dr. Sluis-Cremer’s academic training and record of research, teaching, mentoring and service are thoroughly reviewed below.

Training and Faculty Record

Dr. Sluis-Cremer received his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1997 from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1998 to 2001, he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Michael A. Parniak, Ph.D., at the McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. In 2001, Dr. Sluis-Cremer was appointed Research Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, and was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine (tenure track) in 2004. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine with tenure in 2010. …show more content…

Sluis-Cremer was awarded a secondary faculty appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2004. He holds a secondary faculty appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health since 2008. Dr. Sluis-Cremer serves as a Faculty Member of the Graduate Program in Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program, University of Pittsburgh School of

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