Assistant Research Scientist

About The University of Georgia

Since our founding in 1785, the University of Georgia has operated as Georgia’s oldest, most comprehensive, and most diversified institution of higher education.

Research Scientist combining wet lab and computational approaches to analysis and understanding of protein structure and function.

• PhD in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or related field
• Must be able to fund ≥90% of salary from current research contracts and grants
• At least 5 years of postdoctoral experience conducting research on the structure and function of proteins and training PhD students in the laboratory and computational analysis of the structure and function of proteins
• Ability to conduct wet lab and computational analysis for the structure and function of kinases

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