Research Specialist in experimental Pathology - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Laboratory Medicine consists of seven divisions and is active in many areas of Laboratory Medicine. The department is involved in advanced basic scientific, clinical, and epidemiological research. The department is one of the largest departments of education at Karolinska Institutet.

Your mission

Mikael Björnstedt’s research group is searching a Research specialist to study the antitumor effects of selenium compounds as cancer therapeutics, we perform translational and clinical studies focusing on redox-active selenium compounds as chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer. The research has a wide span including both clinical trials and mechanistic studies with focus on drug action.

Primary duties included in the role are:

• Managing your own research projects
• Teaching and supervision of junior staff, students
• Ongoing contact with collaboration partners
• Writing and publishing of scientific articles

Eligibility requirements

For employment as Research Specialist at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements stated in the Guidelines for non-teaching positions at Karolinska Institutet are applied in relation to the established profile of employment.

To be eligible for employment as a Research Specialist, in addition to holding a Degree of Doctor, PhD, or having a foreign degree deemed equivalent to a Swedish doctoral degree, the applicant must have demonstrated research expertise as well as have documented postdoctoral research experience.

Assessment criteria

1. PhD with finished postdoc with a strong background within medical biotechnology, Pathology and cancer therapeuitics.
2. Extensive experience and expert knowledge concerning selenium compounds, molecular biology, transcriptomics, flow cytometry, enzym kinetics, protein expression and purification, cell death assessments and quantifications.
3. Experience from work with lipid nanoparticles.
4. Experience of ex vivo-models.
5. Experience of IHC.
6. Documented scientific productivity with publications in per-review journals
7. Excellent skills in written and oral English.
8. Of particular importance are social competence, ability to collaborate with others and a genuine passion for science.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

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. Here, 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: Flemingsberg

https://ki.se/en/people/mikael-bjornstedt#about-me

Application

We prefer that Your application is written in English, but You can also apply in Swedish. An application must contain the following documents:  PhD certificate, resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet's qualifications portfolio.

Welcome to apply!

The application must be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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