Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Vaccine Research, Discovery Immunology
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Our Research Laboratories’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large pharmaceutical company, postdoctoral researchers will be positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.
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Be a part of the legacy: Research Division Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program. Our company's Research Laboratories Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large pharmaceutical company, postdoctoral researchers will be positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Postdoctoral scientist with expertise in immunology and computational biology. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Host Pathogen group at Discovery Immunology- Research Division Cambridge, you will work in a close collaboration with Immunologists, Vaccinologists, Computational Scientists and Quantitative Bioscience to understand immune, transcriptomic and epigenetic signatures of durable immune response elicited by different vaccination strategies.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Establishment and utilization of murine in vivo immunogenicity models, ex-vivo assays, multi-parametric flow cytometry, system biology tools to document vaccine-induced immunity.
- Development of a comprehensive adaptive immune cell landscape to the select vaccination strategies.
- Characterization of the transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures of key adaptive populations after vaccination.
- Data interpretation, manuscript preparation, publication and presentation
- Active participation in meetings/seminars both at our company and externally
Education Minimum Requirement:
- Ph.D. or will you have completed your PhD within the next year, in Biological Sciences/Immunology/Virology or related life sciences
Required Experience and Skills:
- Hands-on experience with in vivo murine infection models and immunological assays (ELISA, flow cytometry, ICS, sorting).
- Solid knowledge in molecular biology tools, in vitro assay development and troubleshooting.
- Experience in acquisition and analysis of NGS datasets (scRNA-seq/or Chip-seq and related technologies).
- Strong publication record and ability to design and execute experiments and interpret data.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred experience:
- Strong knowledge and experience with bioinformatics/computational biology