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Postdoctoral Fellow

Employer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Location
Memphis, Tennessee
Salary
Median $57,000/per year, $3,000 sign-on bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan
Closing date
Dec 1, 2021

Job Details

Postdoctoral Fellow

One postdoctoral position is available immediately for motivated candidates at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a premier center for biomedical research located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The successful applicant will have a unique opportunity to use a range of biochemical and genetic technologies, especially cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based proteomics and metabolomics, to explore the pathogenesis of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases in human organoids, mouse models and clinical tissues. The overarching aim is to study complex molecular networks by structural, chemical, genetic and systems biology approaches, providing novel insights into disease development, therapeutic intervention, and biomarker discovery for precision medicine (https://www.stjude.org/peng).

Our postdoctoral fellows have extensive interaction with other members for career development in the fields of state-of-the-art technology development and biomedical research. Our publication record is available on Google Scholar (200+ publications and 27,000+ citations). The Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics is equipped with eight modern mass spectrometers and high performance computing clusters, and St. Jude has abundant resources in large-scale gene editing, structural biology (including CryoEM), super-resolution imaging and high-throughput chemical screening. More than 10 group alumni become principal investigators. St. Jude is a top ranked hospital (No. 2 pediatric cancer hospital on U.S. News & World Report in 2019) and a world-class basic research institute with about 300 faculty members. St. Jude postdoctoral fellows are provided with a competitive salary (median $57,000) in an affordable city, a professional development allowance ($1,875), and an array of benefits, including sign-on bonus ($3,000), health, dental and vision coverage, and a retirement program.

The candidate shall have a Ph.D. degree in chemistry, biology, computer science or a related field or a M.D. degree. Experience in mass spectrometry is not required. Please submit CV, three references, a brief statement regarding previous work and future goals to Dr. Junmin Peng (junmin.peng@stjude.org), Member (Full Professor) in Departments of Structural Biology and Developmental Neurobiology, Director of Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

 

Company

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is one of the world's premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases. St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. Children from all 50 states and from around the world have come through the doors of St. Jude for treatment, and thousands more around the world have benefited from the research conducted at St. Jude - research that is shared freely with the global medical community. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance. No child is denied treatment because of a family's inability to pay.

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