Post-doctoral Fellowship in Organic Synthetic and Natural Products Chemistry (at São Paulo State, Brazil; application deadline 15 of August 2019)

About the role

The Center for Research in Inflammatory Diseases (CRID), one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and hosted by the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP) in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, Brazil, offers a post-doctoral position funded by FAPESP. The opportunity is aimed at highly motivated scientists with expertise in organic synthetic and natural products chemistry.

Responsibilities

• Join a collaboration between CRID and the Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), affiliated with the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo State.
• Participate in a project focused on the identification of novel compounds to treat inflammation.
• Perform two stages of the project, including the synthesis of fluorescent probes (key tool for executing HTS assays).
• Carry out, purify, and structurally elucidate the identified bioactive natural products and/or synthetic derivatives.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in organic chemistry.
• Qualified and skilled synthetic organic chemists with experience in solid-phase peptide synthesis and/or fluorescent probe synthesis.
• Knowledge of chromatographic and spectroscopic methods (LC-MS/MS and NMR in particular) of natural products is advantageous.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English are required.
• Position is for 24 months.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates of any nationalities. The selected candidate will receive a FAPESP’s Post-Doctoral fellowship in the amount of R$ 7,373.10 monthly and a research contingency fund, equivalent to 15% of the annual value of the fellowship which should be spent in items directly related to the research activity.