Postdoctoral Fellow, Basic Science & Transition Research

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.D. or Doctoral equivalent in any field.
• Scientific research experience.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The postdoctoral fellow will conduct, report and present research in his/her field of study under the supervision of a faculty mentor. This is a training position and is not expected to be a permanent position.

Essential Job Functions

• Conduct experiments to determine exosomes as mediators of biological clock functions during pregnancy and engineer exosomes for targeted delivery of exosome based drugs.
• Develop new approaches to study exosome function, exosome as a drug delivery vehicle, or exosome cargo as a drug, and conduct cell and molecular biology approaches.
• Study exosomes impact on feto-maternal units using intrauterine organ on chip devices or organoids.
• Be involved in cell biology work, cell line preparation from human placental tissues, and conducting molecular biological experiments using these cells to understand the feto-maternal communication during pregnancy.

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD degree with a research background in extracellular vesicles is required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD with 1 year of experience in cell and extracellular vesicle biology approaches.
• Knowledge of organ on a chip and organoids are preferred.

SALARY

Commensurate with experience