"RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR"

This Research Investigator position is to assist a senior investigator in running a research program in immunometabolism and extracellular vesicles biology in cancers. This person should have a strong expertise in immunometabolism and extracellular vesicles. This person will supervise ongoing immune cell isolation, immune cell culture, organoid models, and animal experiments. They will assist in mentoring PhD students to perform research. This person will also develop skills as an independent investigator over time by working with the PI on management tasks, grant writing, and student mentorship. The candidates without experience in extracellular vesicles and immunometabolism will not be considered.

• Designing and executing immunometabolism experiments.
• Culturing immune cell-organoids.
• Performing metabolic studies.
• Assuring continued progress on overall grant objectives and assisting with grant-related reports.
• Managing collaborative relationships to ensure that the overall project is progressing together and on schedule.
• Supervising and assisting graduate students and postdocs in generating hypotheses, performing experiments, analyzing data, and drafting papers.
• Assist in grant budget management tasks and grant writing for future projects.
• Attend and run meetings related to these projects.
• Share the administrative duties related to these research studies with the principal investigator.

PhD in Biochemistry or related disciplines.

• At least 3 papers related to extracellular vesicles.
• Published first author for extracellular vesicles biology.
• Published and have a strong experience in immunometabolism
• Experience with immune cell isolation, cancer immune cell organoids, extracellular vesicles, and cancer biology.
• Experience with natural killer cells is required.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong willingness to meet with and call team members to ensure that communication is effective and tasks are being completed.

Strong interest in learning grant writing and developing the ability to directly mentor PhD students as the senior author of an original study.