Postdoctoral Researcher in cronic pain research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

We invite applications for a post doc position in Prof Camilla Svensson’s team that explores cellular and molecular mechanisms underlaying chronic pain states. The position will be placed in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Karolinska Institutet, which has a collegial, international and dynamic research environment. We offer an exciting, open, and collaborative research work environment and project, where you can make a difference.

Your mission

The Postdoctor that joins the team will be investigating pain mechanisms in fibromyalgia. The project is focused on autoantibodies and mechanisms by which they induce and sustain pain. The work will be performed using patient and healthy control liquid and tissue biopsies as well as human primary cell cultures. You will be working closely together preclinical and clinical researchers, computational biologists and biostatisticians with a mission to gain new insights to fibromyalgia pain pathology.

You will work in a creative, inspiring and vibrant research environment. You will be part of a research team that is dedicated to undertaking translational research with the ultimate goal to uncover cellular and molecular reasons behind pain chronicity and contribute to the improvement of life quality for individuals suffering from fibromyalgia

The appointment will be at the Karolinska Institutet. For more information please visit: http://ki.se/en/fyfa/molecular-pain-research

Your profile

You are a creative, hardworking and enthusiastic team player. You have a PhD in immunology, neuroscience, biomedical science, or another relevant field.

You have a strong background neuroscience, immunology or neuroinflammation. Documented practical experience with animal behavioral assays and immunocytochemistry, confocal microscopy and imaging analysis and know-how of mRNA and microplate or flowcytometry based analysis are considered strong merits.

You can work independently but also have the interpersonal and communication skills to succeed at working in a multidisciplinary team. You have a deep sense of responsibility, take initiatives and have capacity and flexibility to work with researchers and students with different expertise.

You have a very good written and spoken English and is a good communicator, both when it comes to presentations and preparation of publications. You have good recommendations from previous supervisors/teachers.

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish doctoral degree is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. It is considered as an advantage if you have completed your doctoral degree within the last three years, if there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Biomedicum, Solna

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
A complete list of publications
A summary of current work (no more than one page)

Welcome to apply!

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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