• Postdoctoral Fellow - Molecular Robotics

    Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)


    Details

     

    Title Postdoctoral Fellow - Molecular Robotics

     

    School Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

     

    Department/Area

    Position Description

    About the Wyss:

    The Wyss Institute’s mission is to transform healthcare and the environment by emulating the way nature builds. We harness the imagination of academia and the focus of industry to translate ground-breaking technologies into commercial products that solve big problems. We support research that universities, companies, and venture capital firms don’t fund because they view it as too risky. We prefer to use the word “challenging,” and we love challenges. For more information, discover our technologies (https://wyss.harvard.edu/technologies/) , catch up on our recent news (https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/) , or watch our latest videos (https://wyss.harvard.edu/multimedia/) .

    Role Description:

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow position in the Molecular Robotics Initiative. The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things, pursue the high-risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

     

    The Shih Laboratory explores design principles for self-assembling molecular machines. We seek outstanding postdoctoral applicants with expertise in immunology and/or biomolecular engineering to work with Institute faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff to develop an approach that will develop cytsolic delivery of RNA nanostructures for innate immunotherapeutic RIG -I activation.

    Basic Qualifications

    What you’ll Need:

    + Applicants are expected to hold a Ph.D. with an excellent track record of research involving immunology, therapeutics, and/or design and characterization of biomolecules.

    + The candidate should be open-minded, creative, energetic, and a critical thinker.

    Additional Qualifications

    Special Instructions

     

    Applications should contain a complete resume, cover letter describing research interests and goals, full list of publications, copies of up to three relevant scientific papers, as well as the names and contact information of three references (expected to provide letters of recommendation).

    Contact Information

    Wyss Institute Academic Affairs

    [email protected]

     

    Contact Email [email protected]

     

    Equal Opportunity Employer

     

    We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.

     

    Minimum Number of References Required

     

    Maximum Number of References Allowed

     

    Keywords

     

    Immunology, Therapeutics, Characterization of Biomolecules, Biotechnology

     

    Supplemental Questions