Postdoctoral Fellows in Anti-Bacterial Drug Discovery
Trudeau Institute, an internationally acclaimed research institute focused on protecting human health through alleviating the continuing burden of infectious disease, has an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow.
The institute hosts multi-disciplinary research devoted to translating the advances of basic science into new strategies to meet today’s urgent infectious disease challenges, collaborating with partners from academic and governmental biomedical laboratories, the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, and major global health focused foundations.
As a part of our bacterial research program, we are recruiting a bacteriologist to take on projects involved in characterizing the mechanisms that bacterial pathogens, , ESKAPE, , and NTM, employ in the host to persist and exploit these discoveries to identify novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment and cure of infected individuals.
The successful candidate will employ bacterial genetics, in vitro and in vivo preclinical models, and genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic approaches to achieve project goals.
The Institute is ideally suited for this program with capacious animal facilities, including A / BSL-3, maintained by experienced staff, and well-equipped with advanced microscopy, flow cytometry, next-generation sequencing, and mass spectrometry instrumentation.
Duties will include experimental research, training and directing junior scientists, and presentation of results at meetings and in publications.
The work will span microbiology, molecular genetics, biochemistry, systems biology, infection biology, and pharmacology.
Qualifications : PhD or MD / PhD with evidence of independence and productivity.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and command of the scientific literature
- Experience in bacterial and mammalian cell culture, evaluation of novel therapeutics, and pre-clinical animal models is desirable.
Experience with mass spectrometry is a bonus.
Compensation : To be determined by the NIH wage scale correlating with number of years as a Postdoctoral Fellow as published on the NIH web site,