Research Fellow, Cancer Biology

Overview

JOB SUMMARY

The postdoctoral fellow is responsible for independent and collaborative development, implementation, and analysis of scientific research in the discipline of cancer metabolism, with a specific focus on mitochondrial bioenergetics, biochemistry and redox systems biology. Responsibilities include management of all aspects of project conception, design, and execution through to publication. Duties include: hypothesis development, literature review, collection of pilot data, report writing, and supervising of undergraduate research students and graduate research students, overseeing data collection procedures, supervising experimental procedures, review of data for quality control, supervision of data entry/data analysis, analysis of research hypothesis using descriptive and multivariate statistics, and the development of independent and collaborative presentations and publications.  Fellows are expected to demonstrate compliance with established guidelines and regulatory standards for research including biosafety, responsible conduct of research, animal care and handling and/or human subjects training. Approximately 95% of the postdoctoral scholar’s time will be devoted to planning and design of experiments and performing experiments and 5% devoted to managing the day-today activity of undergraduate and graduate research students in the laboratory.

EDUCATION

PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in biological sciences or a related field required. No more than two years of postdoctoral experience.