Postdoctoral Training Opportunities
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Available Positions – Listed by Department
Advanced Imaging Research Center
- Advance Hyperpolarization with Parahydrogen (physics/engineering) - Stefan Gloeggler, Ph.D.
- Brain Function Imaging - Binu Thomas, Ph.D.
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - Kimberly Chan, Ph.D.
- Molecular Imaging with Stable Isotope Tracers - Stefan Gloeggler, Ph.D.
- Nanomedicine Based Therapeutics and Diagnostics - Ian Corbin, Ph.D.
- Neuroimaging - Jiaen Liu, Ph.D.
- Pre-Clinical Neuroimaging - Nan Li, Ph.D.
- Synthesize Ssotope Labelled Molecular Imaging Contrast Agents - Stefan Gloeggler, Ph.D.
Anesthesiology & Pain Management
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
- Computational Linguistics and Speech Impairment Characterization - Albert Montillo, Ph.D.
- Multi-Modal Machine Learning and AI for Medical Education - Andrew Jamieson, Ph.D.
- Neuroimage and Medical Image Analysis Using Innovative Machine Learning - Albert Montillo, Ph.D.
- Skin Development, Wound Healing, and Cancer - Benjamin Nanes, M.D., Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
- Causal, Explainable Machine Learning & Foundation Models for Medical Imaging - Albert Montillo, Ph.D.
- Genetic Drug Engineering - Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D.
- Non- and Minimally-invasive Diffuse Optical Tissue Monitoring - David Busch, Ph.D.
- Machine Learning Foundation Models for Image-guided Cancer Surgery - Albert Montillo, Ph.D.
Biophysics
- Biophysics and Developmental Biology - Konstantin Doubrovinski, Ph.D.
- Multi-Disciplinary Studies of Biomolecular Condensates - Condensate Catalyst Grant PI’s
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Cell Biology
- Blood Cell Production and Blood Cancers - Lily Huang, Ph.D.
- Cell and Structural Biology - Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D.
- Primary Cilia, Developmental Diseases, and Cancer - Saikat Mukhopadhyay, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research
Center for the Genetics of Host Defense
Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Computational Genomics/Data Science - Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Epigenetics, Metabolism, and Development - Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D. & Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D.
- Gene Regulation - Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Proteomics and Mass Spectroscopy - Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Signaling and Gene Regulation using Proteomics and Mass Spectroscopy — William Kraus, Ph.D.
- Spatial Genomics - Haiqi Chen, Ph.D.
- Structural Biology and Biochemistry of Gene Regulation - Lee Kraus, Ph.D. & Xin Liu, Ph.D.
Immunology
Internal Medicine
- Breast Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy - Sangeetha Reddy, M.D.
- Cardiometabolic Health - Ambarish Pandey, M.D. & Thomas Wang, M.D.
- Clinical-translational Cardiovascular Disease - Daniel Addison, M.D.
- GPR92 Stimulation in Islet Macrophages During Diet-Induced Obesity - Dayoung Oh, Ph.D.
- Medical Device Immunoengineering - Alexander M. Tatara, M.D., Ph.D.
- Molecular Mechanisms and Translational Cancer Research — James Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D.
- Relationship Autophagy - Josephine Thinwa, M.D., Ph.D.
- Role and Regulation of Cellular Metabolism - Courtney Karner, Ph.D.
- Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Rhythm, Development, Reprogramming, and Regeneration - Nikhil Munshi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Translating Genetics into Clinical and Public Health Settings - Jonathan Mosley, M.D., Ph.D.
- Viral Pathogenesis - J. David Beckham, M.D.
Microbiology
- Bacterial Gene Expression and Regulation - Xinyun (Sherry) Cao, Ph.D.
- Gene Regulation of HIV-1 Latency and Cure - Ivan D'Orso, Ph.D.
- Microbiology - Chien-Ting Wu, Ph.D.
- Virus-Host Interactions – Don Gammon, Ph.D.
Molecular Biology
- Cardiovascular Genetics - Vivian Lee-Kim, Ph.D.
- Cell Fusion in Development and Regeneration – Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D.
- Cell Signaling Mechanism in Development and Regeneration – Jin Jiang, Ph.D.
- Lung Cancer Pathogenesis – Kathryn A. O’Donnell, Ph.D.
- Mechanisms of Myoblast Fusion in Zebrafish Muscle Development – Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D.
- Stress Response Pathways - Peter Douglas, Ph.D.
Neurological Surgery
- Cognitive Control - Zhongzheng Fu, Ph.D.
- Human Bidirectional Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfacing - Cecile Verbaarschot, Ph.D.
- Human Intracranial Neurophysiology – Srinivas Chivukula, M.D., Ph.D.
- Neurosurgical Diseases - Panagiotis Mastorakos, M.D., Ph.D.
- Treatment Resistant Depression - Frederick Hitti, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurology
- AD/ADRD Clinical Research – Ihab Hajjar, M.D.
- Alzheimer’s Disease - Barbara Stopschinski, M.D.
- Essential Tremor - Elan D. Louis, M.D., M.S.
- Redox Metabolism in Glioma - Evan Noch, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuroscience
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ophthalmology
- Mitochondrial and Metabolic Homeostasis in Corneal Health and Disease - Danielle Robertson, O.D., Ph.D.
Pathology
- Innovative Regulatory Mechanisms in Intestinal Innate Immunity - Liraz Galia, Ph.D.
- Metastasis Research - Srinivas Malladi, Ph.D.
- Mitochondrial dysfunction, Neurodegeneration and Cell Death - Yingfei Wang, Ph.D.
- Oxidative Stress, Neurodegeneration and Cell Death - Yingfei Wang, Ph.D.
Pediatrics
- Endothelial Cell Biology of Cardiometabolic Disease - Philip W. Shaul, M.D. & Chieko Mineo, Ph.D.
- Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cells - Yuan Zhu, Ph.D.
- Glycogen Metabolism Related Disorders - Berge Minassian, M.D.
- Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary System Research - Pranavkumar Shivakumar, Ph.D. & Jorge Bezerra, M.D.
- Host-Microbiota Interactions - Xin Li, Ph.D.
- Neuroimaging (MRI) - Jeffrey Waugh, M.D., Ph.D.
Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
- Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) - Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D.
- Memory Mechanisms in the Mammalian Brain - Attila Losonczy, M.D., Ph.D.
- Nanoparticle Synthesis and Cellular Imaging - Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D.
Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health
- AI and Data Science for Health Care and Public Health - Guanghua Xiao, Ph.D.
- Obesity Across the Life Course - Jaime Almandoz, M.D., MBA & Sarah Messiah, Ph.D., MPH
- Public Health Genetics and the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Genetics - Sukh Makhnoon, Ph.D.
- Spatial Epidemiology - Hui Luan, Ph.D.
Pharmacology
- Proteolytic Mechanisms in Cell Signaling and Regenerative Biology - Benjamin P. Weaver, Ph.D.
- Skin Injury Repair and Skin Cancer Using Mouse Models - Siqi Liu, Ph.D.
Physiology
- Biophysics to Study the Structure and Function of Membrane Channels and Transporters - Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.
Psychiatry
Radiation Oncology
- Biomedical Engineering - Ashish Ranjan, Ph.D.
- Biomedical Optics and Medical Physics - Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.
- Cancer Immunotherapy - Ashish Ranjan, Ph.D.
- Genetic and Metabolic Determinants of Radiation Response - Yuanyuan Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Medical Physics - You Zhang, Ph.D.
- Metabolites as Signaling Molecules - Xin Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
- Novel Cancer Diagnostics & Therapeutics - Andrew Z. Wang, M.D.
- Therapeutic Devices, Cancer Immunotherapy, and Veterinary Medicine - Ashish Ranjan, Ph.D.
- Understanding “bad soils” of Cancer Metastasis and Developing Novel Cancer Therapeutics - Andrew Wang, M.D.
Radiology
- Advanced Neuroimaging and Translation - Jiaen Liu, Ph.D.
- Computational Neuroimaging Using MRI and PET - Florence Chiang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Synthetic Chemistry for Molecular Imaging - Xiankai Sun, Ph.D.
Simmons Cancer Center
- Autoimmune Disease & Epigenetics - Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Cancer Immunology and Immune Engineering - Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Computational Biologist - Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Transcription, Chromatin, Epigenetics, HPV, Molecular Virology, Cancer Biology, and Small Molecule Inhibitors - Cheng-Ming Chiang, Ph.D.
- Translational Breast Cancer Research - Carlos Arteaga, M.D.
Surgery
- Burn, Trauma, and Critical Care Surgery - Deborah Carlson, Ph.D.
- Immunology and Cell Fate/Surgery - Benjamin Levi, M.D.
- Optics - Immunology and Cell Fate - Benjamin Levi, M.D.
- Organogenesis & Trauma (CORT) - Benjamin Levi, M.D.
Touchstone Diabets Center
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