Postdoctoral Fellow, Science & Transition Research

Postdoctoral Fellow, Basic Science & Transition Research

Galveston, Texas, United States

UTMB Health

Requisition # 2404498

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

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.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct experiments to determine exosomes as mediators of biological clock functions during pregnancy and engineer exosomes for targeted delivery of exosome based drugs. The candidate will 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. Besides, exosomes impact on feto-maternal units will be studied using intrauterine organ on chip devices or organoids.

In addition, the Postdoctoral Fellow will 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.

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

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

Commensurate with experience

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