Offer Description
This Part Time Post-Doctoral Position is available for 12 months at the Medical University – Varna.
The Medical University – Varna, Bulgaria, is looking for a Post-doctoral fellow to join the research team of the Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Manlio Vinciguerra, at the newly established Research Institute of MU-Varna (RIMUV). Prof. Manlio Vinciguerra leads a newly established and outstanding team of researchers, to improve the excellence of the research and innovation landscape in Bulgaria, working on basic and clinical research involving non communicable disease (cardiovascular, cancer) and stem cells.
The appointee will have responsibility for conducting research studies, in a stimulating and international environment, in the frame of the PREVALUNG project, funded by Horizon Europe, which develops predictive biomarkers associated with lung cancer risk.
Description of the project can be found here: https://www.gustaveroussy.fr/en/horizon-europe-prevalung-eu-program-which-develops-predictive-biomarkers-associated-lung-cancer-risk.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Working in close collaboration with the PI Prof. Manlio Vinciguerra, he/she will participate in, and develop on a day-to-day basis, in the development and validation of robust biomarkers (epigenetic liquid biopsies) for cardiovascular disease and cancer.