Postdoctoral Research Associate (Functional and System Metabolism)

Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Company

hirify.global conducts biomedical research focused on childhood diseases, blood disorders, and cancer.

What you will do

• Study metabolic processes regulating stem cell development, blood disorders, and childhood cancers.
• Investigate metabolic vulnerabilities and therapy responses in genetic blood disorders.
• Characterize metabolic dependencies and biomarkers in childhood cancers.
• Develop high-throughput multi-omic approaches to target metabolic liabilities in cancer stem cells.
• Build computational approaches for integrating metabolomics, transcriptomics, and genomics datasets across development and disease.

Requirements

• Ph.D. and/or M.D. degree in metabolism research, biochemistry, molecular biology, hematology/oncology, or a related field.
• Strong background in a relevant biomedical research area.
• Independence, flexibility, creativity, and a record of scientific productivity.
• Previous experience in metabolomics, computational biology, and/or hematology-oncology is strongly preferred.
• Submit a CV, a short summary of research interests and experience, and three references.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a multidisciplinary and collaborative research environment.
• Access high-throughput metabolomics, genomics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics platforms.
• Use in-house LC-MS and GS-MS metabolomic platforms, Illumina sequencing, 10x Genomics single-cell technologies, and flow cytometry.
• Collaborate with scientists from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.