Tissue Engineer

Role responsibilities

• Develop solutions for achieving vascularization of engineered or explanted organs under stable normothermic perfusion.
• Develop testing infrastructure to evaluate the efficacy of perfusion in a vascularized organ or tissue.
• Lead efforts to characterize vessel formation, maturation, and function.
• Develop and validate strategies to stably integrate vascularized tissues and perfusion circuits, including attachment strategies

Key qualifications

• Strong foundation in vascular biology and understanding of vessel formation
• Demonstrated experience designing and optimizing tissue engineering approaches from first principles
• Proven track record of innovative, frontier research that went beyond published methods, as evidenced by first author papers, patents or other achievements
• Hands-on expertise with 3D tissue culture systems, bioreactors, or ex vivo perfusion platforms
• Meticulous experimental design, protocol documentation, and troubleshooting
• Comfort with ambiguity and iterative failure as part of the discovery process
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to own a complex, multi-faceted problem and drive it to solution

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with organ-on-chip or perfusion-based tissue models
• Background in biomaterials or scaffold design
• Extensive knowledge and experience in developmental biology
• Strong background in microscopy and other sensing techniques