Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, SOM, Stravitz-Sanyal Institute Liver Disease

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The Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health (SSI) is recruiting a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join the Saul Karpen lab. The research arc of the Karpen lab focuses upon wet bench validations of etiologic gene discoveries and therapeutic target identification for rare childhood liver diseases. Recent explorations have focused upon discovering etiologic causes of the # 1 reason to transplant a liver during childhood - biliary atresia.

The successful candidate will develop and apply research methods to analyzing a first genetic model of biliary atresia, the Pkd1l1 conditional KO mouse, including evaluations of therapeutic efficacy.

Position Details:

Department: SSI

Employment Type:

PD - Post Doc, Commensurate with experience based on NIH postdoc scale
Restricted Status:
Yes
FTE: 100
Exemption Status:
Exempt

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