Post Doctoral Fellow - Internal Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Clinical Pharmacology)

Job Duties

• Design and execute experiments and contribute to manuscripts with increasingly independent experiments under PI mentorship.
• Drive data acquisition and analysis (e.g., RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, functional assays) and co-author publications.
• Disseminate findings through scientific publications, abstracts and presentations at regional, national, and international conferences.
• Contribute to ongoing NIH-funded projects and develop complementary, independent lines of inquiry – this will include competing for independent fellowship funding, as opportunities arise.

Required Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent.
• Experience with in vivo modeling, epigenetics, molecular biology, and/or protein biochemistry techniques.
• Experience in pancreatic biology, developmental biology, gene regulation, or a related field.
• Experience in securing research funding (e.g., fellowships, grants).
• Experience in molecular and cellular techniques (western blotting, qPCR, immunohistochemistry, cell culture, co-immunoprecipitation, chromatin immunoprecipitation, etc.).
• Animal handling and in vivo phenotyping experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pancreatic biology, developmental biology, gene regulation, or a related field.
• Experience in securing research funding (e.g., fellowships, grants).
• Experience in molecular and cellular techniques (western blotting, qPCR, immunohistochemistry, cell culture, co-immunoprecipitation, chromatin immunoprecipitation, etc.).
• Animal handling and in vivo phenotyping experience.

Benefits

Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.