Postdoctoral Fellow in The Kitamura Lab

Postdoctoral Fellow in The Kitamura Lab

The Kitamura lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine seeks full-time postdoctoral chemical biologist, medicinal chemist, or synthetic organic chemist. Successful applicants will have a Ph.D. degree in chemical biology, chemistry, pharmacology, or have related experience in chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery in general. Applicants will develop and evaluate chemical probes and drug candidates for biomedical research and must be familiar with multistep chemical synthesis. Working knowledge of a broad range of chemical reactions, the ability to purify and characterize intermediates and products by chromatography, NMR and mass spectrometry is essential. Applicants must work with team members in a collaborative manner with high communication skills. Prior experience in proteomics, drug discovery, assay development, or cheminformatic and computational drug discovery will be a plus.

Please see the Kitamura lab homepage for the research details: skitalab.com/

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae in a single pdf document to seiya.kitamura@einsteinmed.edu. Applicants should be ready to send three letters of reference directly to this email address upon request.

The starting postdoctoral salary is $65,000.

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Einstein seeks candidates whose skills, and personal and professional experience, have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence, and the communities we serve.