Job Description

Are you looking to contribute to groundbreaking research? We invite you to consider this great career opportunity!

Cedars-Sinai is an international leader in biomedical research, we translate discoveries into successful treatments with global impact.

Principal Investigators, Dr. Barry Stripp, PhD and Dr. Changfu Yao, PhD are looking for a Postdoctoral Scientist to join their research labs!

The Stripp and Yao laboratories constitute the Lung Regeneration group at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and seek to understand basic mechanisms of lung maintenance, how this is disrupted in disease and to develop regenerative medicine approaches that will restore structure and function to damaged lung tissue. The laboratories couple the genetic tractability of mouse models with studies using human lung tissue to identify stem/progenitor cells and to understand how they are regulated under normal or injured/diseased states. The long-term goal is to exploit this newly acquired knowledge to improve the care of patients with lung disease.

About the Role

Working independently but in close cooperation and in consultation with the Principal Investigator and other Research Scientists, the Postdoctoral Scientist will perform routine and complex procedures throughout training period. The incumbent may develop, adapt, and implement new research techniques and protocols. The team member analyzes and interprets data, may assist in preparation of grant proposals, and participates in publications and presentations as author or co-author. This position is not responsible for generating grant funds.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs and performs experiments.
• Will keep appropriate experimental records and documentation, and analyze the results with the Principal Investigator.
• Analyzes, interprets, summarizes, and compiles data.
• Operates and maintains equipment and instruments.
• May prepare and submit NIH-F31 application or similar fellowship to non-federal agencies.

Qualifications

Education Requirements:

• Doctorate degree (MD, PhD, VMD, or DDS) in area directly related to field of research specialization.

Experience:

• Works independently on research projects designed by a mentor (typically the PI) within area of specialization.
• Acquires complete technical and theoretical knowledge of research project and objectives during one to five (1-5) year post-doctoral appointment.
• Demonstrated ability to perform experimental protocols and procedures, including detailed data collection, and analysis and operation and maintenance of specialized equipment.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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