Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 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 functions of this position will include: development of targeted lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations specifically for in vivo use, and performing all required quality controls, and most critically, developing new techniques to both large scale produce mRNA and targeted LNP. They will be required to develop their own assays and methods, troubleshoot these methods, and analyze the data to determine the next steps in development.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Center for Health Behavior Research at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking a talented and highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join the Center. The Center, directed by Dr. Karen Glanz, focuses on advancing the development, application, and testing of health behavior measurement and theories. CHBR is also home to the CDC-funded UPenn Prevention Research Center (PRC), one of a national CDC-funded network of 20 centers (2024-2029). The ideal candidate should be interested in the Center for Health Behavior Research’s work in the development, application, and testing of health behavior interventions, measurement and theories. The postdoctoral fellow will have opportunities to collaborate on interdisciplinary research, conduct secondary data analyses, and work on new studies. Interested candidates should review our website to see whether their research interests align with the work of CHBR.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania. The selected applicant will work under the direct supervision of Dr. Rachel Kember, a computational geneticist with expertise in biomedical informatics and psychiatric disorders. The postdoc will also have the opportunity to work with collaborators both at Penn and other institutions on multiple studies involving large-scale datasets.
Current projects in the lab focus on understanding the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders using genetic and phenotypic data from electronic health records (EHR) with linked biobanks. Datasets include the Million Veteran Program, a large dataset of over 850,000 veterans with genetic data currently available for 650,000 individuals; and the Penn Medicine Biobank, which includes 190,000 patients, 45,000 with genetic data. Dr. Kember is a member of PsycheMERGE, a partnership of researchers across the world who are working to better understand and treat neuropsychiatric illnesses; and co-chair of the PsycheMERGE Diversity Initiative, a collaboration across multiple biobanks formed to address inequity in psychiatric genetics research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Conn Lab is looking for 1-2 postdocs focused on post-transcriptional gene regulation and the roles of RNA-binding proteins, RNA modifications, and signaling that are rewired during cancer progression. One project is focused on identifying regulators of selective translation and spatial RNA interactions in the cell during drug resistance in cancer (more mechanism to move into translational research later). The other project is looking at adaptive stress responses in pancreatic tumors and will require mouse modeling, tissue analysis, and treatments in vivo. The lab has received three awards, over four years of funding for these projects.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We seek a talented individual with strong drive, excellent communication skills, and a positive attitude to join our team and perform world-class science in the beautiful Philadelphia! We have a newly funded study focused on unraveling the mechanisms underlying autoimmunity. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will have the unique opportunity to work with primary human tissues and collaborate with leading experts in the field.
About the Role:
• Design and optimize peptide-MHC tetramers to identify self-, microbial-, and cross-reactive T cells in the tissue environment.
• Develop new high-throughput methods for capturing antigen-specific T cells in human gut, spleen, and lymph nodes.
• Perform library prep and single-cell sequencing to uncover tissue-specific signatures of T cell response to self and microbial antigens.
• Perform multi-omic data analyses and integration in R or other programming languages.
• Prepare figures, present findings, and draft manuscripts for publication.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Obstetrics and Gynecology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are seeking applications for two Postdoctoral Researchers. These positions are funded by the National Institutes of Health / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The postdoctoral appointments are one year (12 calendar months) with an option to renew. The purposes of the 7-year (2023-2030) project that the postdoctoral fellows will support are as follows:
• Establish an implementation science (IS) Hub that will provide IS expertise and other resources to Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence and other maternal health researchers.
• Collaborate with the Data Innovation and Coordinating Hub and NICHD staff to provide and coordinate IS functions, including harmonizing data elements where possible.
• Maintain a focus on communities most affected by maternal mortality and morbidity, centering equity and incorporating an intersectionality lens in implementation work.
• Support research skills career development and build capacity for a diverse future of implementation scientists in maternal health through training programs, mentoring, and consultation.
• Characterize barriers and facilitators to the conduct of maternal health-focused implementation research across multiple projects, generate generalizable findings on implementation strategies and outcomes in maternal health, and identify promising practices for the continued successful conduct of such research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Diab laboratory is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position to be supported by our institutional Tumor Virology T32 training grant. We take a multidisciplinary approach to study the tumor microenvironment of human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated head and neck cancer. The fellow will conduct independent and collaborative translational research using mouse and human models and resulting in presentations and publications.
The techniques involved will include working with mouse models of head and neck cancer and carefully studying the tumor microenvironment using flow cytometry, multiplexed-immunohistochemistry, gene expression analyses (qPCR), protein assessment (ELISA) and others. Manipulation of these model systems with cell cycle checkpoint-targeting as well as immune-based therapies are commonplace in the lab. These in vivo studies will be supplemented by ex vivo studies using organotypic tumor slice cultures of human HPV+ head and neck tumors. The ability to analyze the complex datasets resulting from the above experimentation is essential.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A Postdoctoral Researcher position is available for a highly motivated applicant in the laboratory of Dr. Fiona Simpkins at the University of Pennsylvania. Our focuses are to understand resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies such as DNA Damage Repair inhibitors (DDRi), to sequence DDRi with Immuno-Oncology (IO) drugs, and to identify biomarkers or response to these agents. We have developed a preclinical drug development program in the Ovarian Cancer Research Center with the goal of moving novel laboratory therapeutic discoveries into the clinic. We have developed >150 patient derived xenografts (PDX) models, patient-derived organoids, and primary tumor cultures from ovarian and endometrial cancers.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION to continue and expand studies into the mechanisms of immuno-suppression in the primary tumor and metastatic microenvironment and importance of these mechanisms in cancer therapies (as described in Cancer Cell 2017 and 2019, Cell Metab 2022, Nat Cancer 2020 and 2022 and J Clin Invest 2021).
Qualifications: Highly motivated applicants with a doctoral degree (PhD or MD/analogue) and strong interests in the areas of tumorigenesis, immunity and inflammation and experience in molecular/cell biology and/or pathology and genetics of mouse disease models are encouraged to apply.
This position is supported by NIH grants. The training process is greatly aided by a vibrant, intense, and highly collaborative environment at the campus of the University of Pennsylvania and the charm of Philadelphia, one of America’s most important historical cities.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
