美国贝勒医学院博士后职位招聘–分子生物学、生物化学、免疫学方向

Job Description

Summary

Our translational cancer research group is seeking a highly skilled, driven, and organized individual with extensive research experience in cancer biology with who will serve as a postdoctoral scholar in the Surgical Translational Oncology Laboratory. Our lab studies the translational role of patient-derived xenografts for applications in human oncology therapy at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Our group is also leading a clinical trial of chemo-immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer to explore optimal strategies to enhance anti-tumoral immunity. In parallel, we are exploring mechanisms of therapeutic resistance mediated by abnormal sphingolipid metabolism in GI cancer.

Job Duties

• Designs and conducts one or multiple large scale individual research projects with input from laboratory PI.
  • This will include developing and performing highly specialized and complex research examinations, procedures and tests including a variety of molecular and immune assays.
  • Flow cytometry, western blot, microscopy, ELISA, will be among the assays.
  • Individual will be responsible for data analysis and figure preparation, with responsibilities to present data in scientific meetings.
• Establishes new research protocols and procedures.
• Summarizes research findings and publish results in research journals.
• Maintains laboratory operations.
• Supervises research staff.
• Contributes to grant writing

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum requirements are a PhD in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology or a similar discipline. Minimum relevant experience includes completion of BS or BA and a PhD degree.
• The successful applicant must be enthusiastic and willing to take on innovative experiments studying human and mouse tumor samples in relation to pro-neoplastic pathways that contribute to cancer promotion.

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

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