Research Fellow, Cancer Biology

Overview

Job Summary

Dr. Xin Ming’s Lab in the Department of Cancer Biology and the Atrium Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center is seeking a motivated, independent Post-Doctoral Candidate with a background in drug delivery, immunology, or cancer biology to take on projects focused on precision drug delivery and cancer-targeted immunotherapy.

Dr. Ming’s Lab is a translational research lab interested in drug delivery and cancer targeting. The research program entails the synthesis of targeted delivery carriers and the simultaneous use of stimuli-responsive approaches both to enhance delivery and to attain synergistic actions. The lab is currently supported by four NIH grants and other grants from Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center and Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Recent representative lab publications: Science Translational Medicine 2022 (PMID: 35675434), Nature Biomedical Engineering 2021 (PMID: 34725506), Theranostics 2018 (PMID: 30613297), Journal of Controlled Release 2018 (PMID: 30081143), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018 (PMID: 30188117), Nanoscale 2015 (PMID: 26134311), Biomaterials 2013 (PMID: 23876758 ), Nucleic Acids Research 2013 (PMID: 23396438), Journal of Controlled Release 2011 (PMID: 21571016), and Nucleic Acids Research 2010 (PMID: 20551131).

Qualifications

• Recent PhD graduate in drug delivery, bioengineering, immunology, cancer biology, or related discipline.
• Research experience with drug delivery, immunology, or cancer research, with relevant publications.
• Independent, highly self-motivated, and innovative.

If interested, please send a cover letter and CV to Dr. Xin Ming, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine ([email protected]).