Summary

This position will develop small animal models for cardiac diseases to help develop novel therapies for heart diseases. The postdoctoral fellow will perform small animal survival surgeries to produce cardiovascular disease models. He/she is expected to be able to execute the experiment, collect tissue samples at the end of the experiment, perform analysis and report the result. The end experiments will include multiomics analysis, such as bulk RNA and scRNAseq, metabolomics and proteomics analysis.

Job Duties

• Plans and executes experiment.
• Analyzes and presents data.
• Writes manuscript and oral presentation.
• Plans animal experiment.
• Performs surgery and pre-post- surgical care.
• Coordinates with various core facility for data collection.
• Procures tissue sample and performs final molecular and histological experiments and analysis.
• Sets up animal cohorts for experiment and performs pre and post surgical care and daily injection of testing compounds.
• Performs tissue sample procurement at the end of the survival experiment, as well as genotyping, basic molecular biology, histology, immunohistochemistry experiments.
• Performs cardiovascular survival surgeries, including transaortic constriction, myocardial infarction and ischemia referfusion.
• Performs primary cell isolation and culture for cardiovascular cell types.
• Performs data analysis of scRNAseq and other omics.
• Summarizes data and report.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent (1-3 year) of MD or PhD graduate with experience in cardiovascular animal research.
• Surgical skills are greatly appreciated.
• Bioinformatics skills are greatly appreciated.
• Experience with iPSC-cardiomyocytes or organoid is a plus.