Postdoctoral Researcher in Cardiovascular biology

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Opportunity to be part of Karolinska Institutet, one of the world's leading medical universities, and the Cardiovascular medicine research at the Department of Medicine, Solna. Our lab offers a creative, collaborative, and supportive research environment, with access to cutting-edge technology, modern infrastructure and daily seminars and lectures by world-leading scientists.

Your mission

We are looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow to strengthen our research team. You should have a broad knowledge and experience in experimental work, data analysis and processing of data, preferably in the cardiovascular field. You will work closely in a team with molecular biologists, laboratory technicians, clinicians, PhD-students and bioinformaticians where your role will be to lead and perform experimental work using molecular and cellular biology technique, such as siRNA, histology and microscopy, RNA-sequencing and cell culture models. You will also contribute to the work of collection and handling of surgical biopsies, and supervision of doctoral and master/undergraduate students. We expect you to work in a diligent and responsible way, generating properly controlled scientific data of high quality.

Your profile

You should be creative and goal-oriented with a scientific drive and proven scientific track record. You should also be able to work independently and take a strong lead in managing the progress of the project. Previous experimental experience within the field of vascular cell- and molecular biology and cardiomyopathy is particularly meriting, as well as handling of cardiomyocytes. Handling and analysis of omics data and the programming language R skills is  also meriting.

Good communication skills in English, spoken and written, are required. Personal suitability for the group will be a strong selection criterion.

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. 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

The position is located within the Department of Medicine, Solna. The department consists of ten divisions and each division consists of several research groups. The position is located within the research group Lars Lund, Team Shahim (https://ki.se/en/research/research-areas-centres-and-networks/research-groups/heart-failure-with-reduced-and-preserved-ejection-fraction-clinical-and-translational-aspects-research-group-lars-lund) and experimental work will be performed in collaboration with research group Hanna Björck (https://staff.ki.se/people/hanna-bjorck) at the Division of Cardiology. The research at the division of Cardiology ranges from basic research at molecular and cellular level to translational and clinical studies.

Specifically, our research team aims to reveal the disease mechanisms underlying arrhythmic mitral valve disease and cardiomyopathy. A unique in its kind clinical cohort and biobank has been built in close collaboration with the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, enablig patient-specific phenotyping and true translational research. We integrate molecular cell biology, multiomic analysis, epidemiology, and genetics to unravel disease pathogenesis, with several national as well as international collaborators.

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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)

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

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