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Are you looking to contribute to groundbreaking research? This is a great opportunity for you!

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in biomedical research, we translate discoveries into successful treatments with global impact. We invite to be a part of this outstanding work!

Principal Investigator, Youn Jung (Chloe) Choi, PhD, is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher with experience and interest in lung immunology to join her team.

The Choi Lab specializes in cellular and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on lung immunology. Our research delves into the intricacies of lung-resident mast cells and alveolar macrophages, exploring their roles in the progression of inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma and lung fibrosis. To learn more, please visit the Choi Lab website.

Working independently but in close collaboration and in consultation with the Principal Investigator and other Research Scientist, the Postdoctoral Scientist will perform routine and sophisticated laboratory procedures throughout this training period. The incumbent may develop, adapt, and implement new research techniques and protocols. This position is not responsible for generating grant funds.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• May assist in the preparation of grant proposals.
• May participate in publications and presentations as author or co-author.
• Designs and performs experiments.
• Maintains experimental records and documentation and analyzes the results with the Principal Investigator.
• Analyzes interpret, summarizes, and compiles data.
• Operates and maintains equipment and instruments.
• May observe MD-patient or MD-human research subject interactions as it pertains directly to research being performed.

Department-Specific Duties:

• Independently driving projects and developing innovative research ideas. Design and lead projects focused on lung immune cell functions.
• Conducting experiments using animal models and assessing pulmonary mechanics; experimental methodologies relating to cellular immunology, molecular biology, and biochemistry.
• Keeps detailed and accurate logs of experimental design and primary data, analysis, and synthesis.
• Prepares data presentations and writing manuscripts for publication.
• Coordinates lab tasks including ordering, inventory, and other essential lab functions.
• Collaborates with other team members, including students, technicians, and other postdoctoral fellows.
• Travels to meetings to represent the lab and to present new data.

Qualifications

Education:

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

Experience:

• Experience in immunology and cell and molecular biology are preferred.
• Experience with flow cytometry or cell culture are strongly preferred.
• Biostatistical and high-dimensional data analysis skills are desirable.
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team - and should have excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Acquires technical and theoretical knowledge of research project and objectives during one to five (1-5) year postdoctoral appointment.

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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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