Postdoctoral Researcher in translational muscle physiology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health?

We offer a position as postdoctoral researcher to work with muscle biology in the context of inflammatory myopathies. The aim is to understand mechanisms of impaired metabolism and contraction as mediated by serological factors and evaluate new pharmacological interventions. The research group offers a creative and intellectual milieu.

Your mission

The postdoc will test hypothesis regarding the roles of inflammatory serum in mediating muscle weakness and metabolic dysfunction. This involves handling of experimental animals, dissection of skeletal muscles and working with a test platform developed by the laboratory.

Your profile

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

The candidate should have extensive experience in isolation of skeletal muscles to be measured in a myograph, handling experimental animals, incubation with serum from patients, measurement of glucose uptake, qPCR and protein quantification methods.

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

Daniel Andersson's research group

Application

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

PhD certificate
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. Please note that the selection process may take time during the holiday period and our response may therefore be delayed.

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