Job Opportunity- Postdoc- UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Opening

A postdoctoral position (PhD and MD/PhD) in cancer/stem cell research is available in the laboratory of Dr. Dung-Fang Lee, Assistant Professor and CPRIT scholar in cancer research at the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Our laboratory focuses on applying pluripotent stem cells (PSCs; e.g., patient-derived iPSCs) as disease model systems to identify fundamental mechanisms underlying the early stage of cancer development and develop potential new pharmaceutical therapies. The potential candidates are expected to have experience on tissue culture, standard and advanced molecular biology techniques (DNAs, RNAs and proteins) and animals (mouse) handling. Successful candidates will learn hESC and iPSC culture, TALEN/CRISPR genome editing and tissue differentiation techniques, and systems approaches to understand the pathological mechanisms of familial cancer syndromes such as Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Successful candidates will routinely participate in lab/department meetings to develop all research techniques and data analysis. Interested applicants should send your CV including research experiences and list of publications, a cover letter stating your research interests and professional goals, the contact information for three (3) references and the expected available date to Dung-Fang.Lee@uth.tmc.edu. Please indicate “postdoc application” in the subject title. We also look for prospective graduate students who needs to apply direct to The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston. Once admitted to Ph.D. program, you can apply for the rotation opportunity in our lab. More information can be found in lab web page: https://med.uth.edu/ibp/faculty/dung-fang-lee/

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