Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? University of Michigan, Michigan, United States 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:
The Primary Care fellowship is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and The Community Health and Social Services (CHASS) Center, Inc., a community-based, not for profit organization in Detroit, MI, that was formed to develop, promote, and provide comprehensive, accessible and affordable quality primary health care and support services to all residents of the community, with special emphasis on the underserved African-American and Latino population. This fellowship will require the successful candidate to be fluent in Spanish, including Medical Spanish.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Brody laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan is looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow with a strong background in biochemistry, molecular biology, mouse genetics, and/or cardiac physiology. Our research is broadly focused on the molecular signals in cardiomyocytes that underlie cardiac disease onset and progression with a particular focus on signaling by GTPases. We have a specific interest in understanding how intracellular signaling is compartmentalized and regionally controlled by lipid modifications that modulate the function of signaling molecules in various cell types of the heart to control cardiac physiology and pathogenesis.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Hastings Lab is a basic science and translational research lab looking for people to join the team that are interested in investigating mechanisms of disease and devising therapeutic strategies based on these mechanisms as potential disease treatments. RNA therapeutics and neurodegenerative and genetic diseases are a current focus of the lab. Candidates with all types of expertise will be considered as we look to solidify our foundational skills and also expand our knowledge base.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to investigate risk perception and behavioral response to climate change and natural hazards, specifically wildfire risk. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary working group of faculty, students, and postdocs studying human and ecosystem adaptation to wildfire risk using an integrated social-environmental system framework. The fellow will undertake a research project entailing quantitative analysis of existing or new survey data, culminating in scholarly research publications as well as practical policy recommendations.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A unique postdoctoral scientist opportunity is available within the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan Medical School. This dually mentored position will operate at the interface of basic science in G protein coupled receptor signaling and translational hematology. You should have knowledge or prior training in biochemistry, pharmacology, cell or molecular biology and have the desire for a diverse training experience. It is expected that the postdoctoral scientist will perform the following activities semi-independently under the quidance of the principle investigators of both laboratories; conduct research, apply for postdoctoral fellowships, present results at national and international scientific meetings, and publish findings in peer-reviewed journals.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the Department of Pharmacology. As the selected candidate, you will be expected to conduct research in the field of Adhesion G Protein Coupled Receptors and G Protein Signaling.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences (MNIMBS) is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to study the immunological mechanisms of adjuvants for the development of improved vaccines. The ideal candidate will have experience in basic cellular and molecular biology/biochemical techniques including mammalian cell culture, qPCR, protein expression and purification, and immunological techniques such as ELISA, and flow cytometry. Prior experience working with mice is highly preferred. Primary responsibilities include assisting in experimental work for ongoing projects, compiling, analyzing, and interpreting results, as well as potentially contributing to manuscript preparation.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Departments of Ophthalmology and Psychiatry at University of Michigan have established a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary program of research, funded by several extramural and foundation awards, and headed by Kanishka Thiran Jayasundera and David M. Fresco, and are actively seeking applications for a post-doctoral research position. The ideal candidate we seek will be a clinical psychologist, with a doctoral degree, who is interested in a career in research, but has familiarity and expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy. The fellow will serve as an interventionist on a new NIH-funded clinical trial that will evaluate the efficacy of Emotion Regulation Therapy to resolve the distress caused by vision loss. Additional responsibilities include assisting with existing data collection efforts for clinical trial research, lab-management, manuscript preparation, grant development, and developing their own lines of inquiry.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Opportunities for creative and motivated postdocs to participate in cutting-edge exciting research projects that investigate gut leukocyte trafficking during inflammatory diseases and mucosal wound repair. Our studies employ state-of-the-art immunology, molecular/cell biology, imaging, and multi-omics (proteomics, single-cell sequencing including spatial transcriptomics) approaches. Experimental approaches also utilize many genetically modified mice, stem cell derived organoids and human tissues.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of Psychology is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to work on an NSF-funded project on reducing COVID and Flu vaccine hesitancy (see description here). This project examines topics related to educational interventions, risk perception, misinformation, and applied cognition. The candidate will work closely with Dr.’s Richard Lewis, Priti Shah, and John Jonides, as well as their research staff and collaborators. Successful candidates will have interests in the field of applied cognition and will also have experience with Bayesian data analysis or other modeling techniques.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
11. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to assist with a project in Dr. Liz Duval’s research lab in the Department of Psychiatry. This project will investigate hippocampal-dependent learning and memory processes associated with childhood adversity and opioid use disorder.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Assist the Principal Investigator with ongoing studies related to neuron-glia communication, synaptic transmission, and neural circuit development in neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder). Assist in the writing of manuscripts, reports and abstracts for presentation at meetings, or publication in scientific journals. Critically evaluate relevant literatures. Assist in writing of grant proposals for future related areas of independent investigation.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Levitt lab in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan is seeking a post-doctoral research fellow interested in conducting research to understand brainstem mechanisms underlying opioid-induced respiratory depression. As a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab, the successful candidate will utilize leading-edge neurophysiology techniques, including brain slice electrophysiology, respiratory motor nerve output and single unit recording in an in-vivo like pontomedullary network model, and in vivo measurements of breathing in mice, and will be expected to independently design and conduct experiments, perform data analysis, write manuscripts, and present data at scientific meetings.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
14. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Specifically, the candidate will be responsible for processing, integrating, and analyzing large amounts of heterogenous biomedical data, primarily in the fields of vaccinology, infectious diseases, and their related areas. The candidate will do research on an interdisciplinary project, which has the research goals of enhanced mechanistical understanding of the host-vaccine/pathogen interactions and translational vaccine design and prediction. The candidate has the option to choose different research methods such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and Omics data analysis. This is a collaborative project, so the candidate is required to work together with other team members in different universities.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
15. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Spatial Biodynamics Lab (spatialbiodynamics.org) led by Dr. Changyang Linghu at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join an exciting journey to unravel the principles of how cellular activities drive fundamental brain functions, such as computation, learning, and memory, via the development and application of novel technologies to read out and control cellular activities in the living brain. The Spatial Biodynamics Lab is at the intersection of the Medical School, Michigan Neuroscience Institute, Biosciences Initiative, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and provides a unique and world’s top interdisciplinary research and training environment.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
16. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The department of Neurosurgery is seeking two additional Research Fellow who will be responsible for building the infrastructure of a new lab. This requires strong familiarity with real-time ML for brain machine interfaces and existing previous experience using these systems. This also requires experience with FDA and IRB regulatory processes for implanted neurological devices. The candidate will work with a team of clinicians, postdoctoral/doctoral students, medical students, and research scientists to generate and publish high-impact machine learning research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
17. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This position is ideal for a recent (or soon to be) PhD graduate who is interested in strengthening their experimental, analytical, and publishing skills before transitioning to independence within academia or bio-pharma industry. Transferring these skills to future scientists is central to the Parolia Lab?s mission (see below for details). The candidate will work as part of a small research team (comprising 2 to 3 individuals) to functionally interrogate epigenetic and chromatin regulatory proteins that activate key cancer-fueling pathways in hormone-driven (i.e., prostate and breast) cancers. They will also assess druggability of these genes using novel inhibitory/degrader drugs in preclinical models.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
18. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The College of Pharmacy and The Sztain lab (https://pharmacy.umich.edu/sztainlab) at the University of Michigan is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on projects related to molecular design including small molecules and proteins using biophysics and machine learning. The selected candidates are expected to conduct high-level research, present results to the team regularly, and publish in peer-reviewed journals. Additional responsibilities may include grant writing, laboratory management, student mentorship, and community engagement.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
19. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Highly motivated individual sought for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in a translational research laboratory in the Department of Surgery with principal investigators Dr. Lauren Krumeich (Endocrine Surgery) and Dr. Gary Hammer (Endocrinology). The candidate will focus on the immunologic response to adrenal tumors utilizing mouse models and human specimens. This position provides an opportunity to work closely with the principal investigators as well as with a dynamic team of collaborative researchers. We are considering candidates at all levels of experience and can adjust the position as appropriate for the candidate, but the ideal candidate will have successfully defended their PhD.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
20. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The University of Michigan is offering a postdoctoral research position aimed at exploring the mechanisms contributing to vascular alterations, tissue fibrosis, and the complex interplay between the stroma and the immune system in the context of autoimmune diseases, specifically systemic sclerosis. This opportunity resides within a dynamic laboratory that maintains a tight coupling with clinical research programs to facilitate translational outcomes, epitomizing the bench-to-bedside philosophy.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
21. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work at the intersection of innate immunity and cardiovascular disease. Duties will include organizing and implementing complex research plans, involving the following in vivo and in vitro methodologies: qRT-PCR, ELISA, western blotting, ChIP, magnetic and flow cytometric cell sorting, tissue culture, siRNA transfection, microsurgical murine models and mentoring undergraduate students. The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for analysis, interpretation and publication of the work.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
22. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The renewed NIH-funded Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (CAsToR) invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship focused on the impact of tobacco regulations. The postdoctoral research fellow will develop and examine simulation models of tobacco use that explicitly consider multiple tobacco-products and multiple disease outcomes. The interdisciplinary team includes epidemiologists, economists, tobacco scientists, applied mathematicians, and statisticians. The project will conduct analyses of the public health impact of tobacco regulations across a range of tobacco-related conditions and policy outcomes. Desired areas of expertise include: dynamic and complex systems, agent-based modeling, computer programming (familiarity with R, Python, Netlogo), statistical analysis/econometrics, and epidemiology modeling.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
23. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team of drug development. The goal of our projects is to develop onco-immunology small molecules for cancer immunotherapy and immune modulators for treatment of autoimmune diseases. This position is within a multi-disciplinary and highly collaborative research group. The successful applicant should have a strong background in organic/medicinal chemistry, and also show interest in other areas of research relevant to the lab such as cancer nanomedicine, cancer mRNA vaccine and pharmacokinetics.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
24. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Kaczorowski lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting post-doctoral scholars to study the synaptic architecture and function of hippocampal and cortical cell types including circuit level computations that promote the cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative dementias. The Kaczorowski lab utilizes cutting-edge neuroanatomical, neuroimaging, computational, and behavioral genetic approaches to identify the circuit changes that support `normal? cognition despite inheritance of causal mutations. The Kaczorowski Lab team values excellence, integrity, diversity, impact and kindness – and we are looking for postdoctoral trainees who are enthusiastic, creative and experienced in circuit level structure/function assays.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
25. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are searching for a biostatistician postdoctoral research fellow to work with a dynamic neurodegeneration research group comprised of neurologists, immunologists, basic scientists, biostatisticians, environmental scientists, epidemiologists, bioinformaticians, and data managers. This individual will work with multiple datasets, longitudinal clinical data, survival data, immunophenotyping, and environmental exposure data related to neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Experience with the analysis of chemical mixtures, machine learning, and artificial intelligence is a plus.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
