Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research fields. Apply today to pursue your research interests in a stimulating academic environment!
1. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Research efforts for this position will primarily focus on an NIH Funded Study investigating the mechanistic pathway defining the link between joint loading and osteoarthritis development following knee injury. The postdoctoral research associate will primarily be responsible for leading the day-to-day study, conduct data analytics and outcome interpretation related to movement biomechanics and biomarkers of cartilage health as measured by magnetic resonance imaging. The post-doctoral research associate is expected to work in a highly collaborative fast paced environment. The post-doctoral fellow will interact with other researchers in the departments of Exercise and Sport Science, Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedics, and the Thurston Arthritis Research Center on a regular basis.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
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UNC CEED provides outstanding evidence-based, multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient care for individuals with eating disorders. The fellowship position will be 80% clinical and 20% research. The fellow’s primary clinical responsibilities will include conducting comprehensive eating disorder evaluations and providing individual, group, and family-based psychotherapy treatments. CEED is the primary hospital-based eating disorders treatment program for the state and treats a full range of eating disorders across the age span, with a racial, ethnic, sex/gender identifying, and socioeconomically diverse patient population.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
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A Postdoctoral Trainee position is available on the Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease (RMD) Epidemiology and Outcomes T32 Training Program at the University of North Carolina. This position involves tailored training opportunities in clinical aspects of RMDs, epidemiology, and a focus on data science and machine learning methodologies and their application to clinical data in RMDs. Successful candidates will develop, in conjunction with T32 mentors and faculty, individual research projects based on their existing skills, objectives of training, and career goals
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
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The SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a training experience where primary research is conducted at UNC Chapel Hill and teaching responsibilities are carried out at partner minority-serving institutions. The postdoctoral scholar will provide contributions to research progress in a laboratory research environment selected across a range of areas aligned with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) research priorities. Opportunities to tailor the experience to meet individual training needs and professional goals include participation in formal teaching, professional development workshops, and the development of specific research, teaching, and other career related competencies. SPIRE training includes a pedagogical workshop series, IDPs and annual evaluations, and regular participation in training seminars.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This Postdoctoral Research Associate would support studies to examine a recently identified signaling pathway in the development and pro-tolerogenic function of mregDCs. This work would involve primary dendritic cell generation and purification, the genetic manipulation of dendritic cells, and the execution of various T cell-DC co-culture assays requiring a familiarity with flow cytometry. Additional studies will require in vivo tumor studies and the execution and analysis of single-cell RNAseq and single-cell ATACseq. Additional work involving Phenocycler multi-target immunofluorescence of clinical specimens may also be involved.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
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This Postdoctoral Research Associate would support studies to examine a role for the tumor-intrinsic NLRP3 inflammasome in immune evasion associated with the process of tumor dormancy and treatment resistance persistor cell development, tumor relapse, and metastatic progression. This work would involve a combination of ex vivo tumor-T cell co-culture assays, the use of in vivo tumor models, and the utilization of tumor clinical specimens. Techniques would include the use of CRISPR/Cas9-targeted gene deletion, microbead and FACS cell purification, flow cytometry analysis, Western blot, qrt-PCR, ELISA, RNAseq, scRNAseq, micro-CT imaging, IHC, FISH, and proximity ligation assays. Additional work involving performing and analyzing spatial transcriptomics may also be involved.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
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Conduct high-throughput assay development for peptide drug discovery and investigation of new methods for unnatural amino acid incorporation into mRNA display libraries and genetic code expansion.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
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The McGinty laboratory at UNC-CH invites highly skilled and motivated structural biologists, biochemists, or chemical biologists, who are interested in expanding their skills while working on significant and impactful chromatin research, to apply for this position. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will conduct independent research furthering the laboratory’s studies of proteins that regulate chromatin structure and function through epigenetic processes, disruption of which leads to many human diseases including cancer.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
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The Anton lab in the Neuroscience Center at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (https://www.antonlab.org) is seeking highly motivated post doctoral fellows interested in investigating the molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortical development and neurodevelopmental disorders (see Neuron 2019 July 2; 103, 1-17. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.049; Developmental Cell 2019 Dec 16; 51(6):759-774.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2019.11.005). This postdoctoral position will investigate the molecular genetic mechanisms of progenitor and neuronal development in mammalian brain and in neurodevelopmental disorders using cutting edge methods, including circuit mapping, clarity, chemogenetic and optogenetic manipulation of signaling pathways, CRISPR-Cas9 based genome editing, brain organoids, and single cell sequencing.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
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This position is a NIH-funded project on multimodal machine learning for autoimmune diseases. The focus of these multimodal ML postdoc position will include but is not limited to, multimodal representation learning, dynamic information/missing data, and interpretable deep learning. The duties of the postdoctoral scholar will include aiding the research of graduate students on multimodal ML projects and leading research directions complementary to theirs that fall within the scope of the respective research labs. The postdoctoral research scholar will have the freedom to create a research agenda within the overall research project, as well as opportunities to advise graduate and undergraduate students in the lab, collaborate with other AI faculty (vision/robotics/ML) in the department, and teach courses if they choose to do so.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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11. Postdoctoral Position
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The postdoctoral research scholar will study the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and/or other common human cardiometabolic and molecular traits with complex inheritance patterns. Projects will aim to identify the molecular and biological mechanisms by which human DNA variants lead to disease. The scholar will perform and report research, contribute to laboratory activities, actively participate in collaborative projects, and mentor graduate and undergraduate students.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Postdoctoral Position
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The Postdoc Research Associate will develop and execute brain stimulation and network neuroscience projects at the highest scientific standards. Publish high-profile scientific papers and significantly contribute to the translational discovery process of identifying and target brain-network targets for the development of novel brain stimulation treatments for psychiatric and neurological illnesses. Contribute to grant writing and mentorship.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The University of North Carolina Suicide Prevention Institute (SPI) is seeking an excellent post-doctoral clinical or counseling psychologist to conduct research and clinical care in efforts to counter the mental health and suicide epidemics impacting North Carolina. The SPI is a team science endeavor that is now working to implement novel preventive efforts across the lifespan, across the range of suicidal behaviors (from far upstream to downstream), and across the segments of the NC populace (with efforts focused on empirically defined risk groups). All of our work is embedded in empiricism and there are multiple data science efforts underway at UNC, in NC, and in Sweden.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
14. Postdoctoral Position
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The laboratory of Dr. Kirsten Bryant is located in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Dept. of Pharmacology. We are focused on delineating new treatments for pancreatic and other RAS-driven cancers. We are currently focused on targeting the RAS pathway in combination with inhibtors of metabolic processes.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
15. Postdoctoral Position
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A postdoctoral research associate position is available to conduct translational cancer research. The position will involve wet lab research utilizing nucleic acid and protein biochemistry, and cancer cell biology techniques. Both cell culture and use of mouse models will be involved. Cell cycle regulation and cancer will also be studied. Additional responsibilities include science writing and meeting presentations, and mentoring of junior level researchers.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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16. Postdoctoral Position
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One postdoctoral associate position is available in a cancer research lab located within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Cancer Center. The lab currently studies the hypoxia signaling, prolyl hydroxylases, and cancer, specifically breast and renal cell carcinoma. One project focuses on using novel proteomic and genomic approaches to screen for novel prolyl hydroxylase substrates that play important roles in various of cancer. The other project involves integrating ChIP-seq strategy with gene expression profiling to identify EglN2 prolyl hydroxylase and Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF1) targets in the malignant diseases.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
17. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We seek a postdoctoral researcher with experience in satellite remote sensing of water quality on a potentially NSF funded transdisciplinary project. The project aims to build decision support tools that improve planning and decision making that support cleaner rivers and more equitable river access. This position will work within a team that spans academia, government, non-profit sectors and across disciplines such as hydrology, environmental justice, and data science.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
