POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

Immune and Brain Function Research | Innovative Therapeutics Development | Machine Intelligence & AI-Driven Disease Prediction

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

Positions available immediately for highly motivated recent PhDs and/or MDs to join multidisciplinary teams conducting translational and basic science research. Successful candidate will work at the intersection of cutting-edge wet-laboratory science and machine intelligence, contributing to programs that generate, integrate, and extract biological insight from large-scale multimodal datasets.

RESEARCH AREAS

1. Single-Cell and Spatial Multiomics of the Human Brain
2. AI-Driven Disease State Prediction from Large-Scale Omics Datasets
3. RNA Vaccines, Gene Therapies, and Delivery System Engineering
4. RNA Biology Mechanisms in Immune Function and Cancer
5. Epitranscriptomic Regulation of Cancer and Host–Pathogen Interactions
6. iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids and Assembloids as Disease Models
7. Structure-Based Drug Design and Targeted Protein Degradation

TECHNOLOGIES AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES

Wet-Laboratory Platforms and Machine Intelligence and Computational Platforms listed in detail in posting.

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD and/or MD in relevant field with expertise in listed platforms.

RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

Join the Rana Lab at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit your CV and contact information for three references to: ranaoffice@ucsd.edu