贝勒医学院博士后职位招聘–营养学、分子生物学、生理学、遗传学、生物统计学、流行病学、动物科学、心理学、社会学或相关研究领域

Summary

The Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Pediatric Nutrition. The CNRC is an internationally recognized leader in pediatric nutrition operated in cooperation between the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children’s Hospital. The CNRC is located in a modern, fully equipped research facility in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX.  The goal of the Training Program at the CNRC is to prepare Ph.D. and M.D. recipients for academic careers in nutrition that focus on pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The program in basic, translational, behavioral, and clinical nutrition research provides state-of-the-art training, didactic structure, and mentoring. Research areas include molecular regulation of metabolism, growth, and body composition; developmental determinants of chronic diseases; epigenetic outcomes of nutritional conditions; neuroregulation of appetite and metabolism; dietary requirements; and behavioral basis of energy balance.

Per grant funding requirements for this position, only US citizens can be hired into this position.

Job Duties

• Full understanding of framing research questions, research design and methods, and project implementation.
• Learn and become experts at research techniques involved in your projects and, when appropriate, to develop and establish methods of research, testing and data collection, analysis and evaluation, and writing reports containing descriptive, analytical and evaluative content.
• Exercise independent discretion and judgment in carrying out research activities within the predetermined research scope and methodology.
• Within the predetermined research scope and methodology, conduct research experiments in the field of Nutrition Science.
• Collect and analyze data, including periodical/literature search and utilizing specialized skills in related field to analyze the collected data.
• Demonstrated proficiency in scientific/manuscript writing for publication in scientific journals, grant writing, poster and oral presentations.
• May attend conferences and seminars.
• Strong publication record and demonstrated experience in research study design and project implementation.
• Mentored research training in laboratory specific research methods.
• Courses, seminars, and lectures that integrate the study of research methods and processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• M.D. degree or a Ph.D. degree in nutrition, molecular biology, physiology, genetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, animal science, psychology, sociology, or related field of study.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.