UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 or Level 2

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 or Level 2 within UCD School of Medicine.

Are you a highly motivated and skilled Postdoctoral Fellow interested in opportunities to join our research team to investigate the chronic complications of diabetes? Diabetic kidney disease remains a serious microvascular complication of diabetes, and there is an urgent clinical need to identify those individuals at risk of progressing to renal disease, as well as to develop new therapeutic approaches. Our interdisciplinary research lies at the interface of medicine, molecular biology, transcriptomics, genomics and bioinformatics. Our research involves collaboration with molecular biologists, clinicians, and geneticists, where analysis of genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing hold the promise for understanding the pathogenesis of disease and by extension the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutics.

The successful applicant will play a key role as part of an international consortium exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying diabetic kidney disease. The principal responsibilities will include applying molecular cell biology techniques to investigate the functional role of candidate genes in the vascular complications of diabetes and inflammation, data mining of large scale next-generation sequencing datasets derived from human tissues and established cell model systems; and integration of multi-omics datasets (RNA-seq, microarray, genome-wide association study datasets, epigenetics datasets). This programme of work is funded by Science Foundation Ireland [SFI] The Health Research Board [HRB] and involves extensive international collaborations with investigators at Queen's University Belfast, Harvard University, the Broad Institute and MIT.

PD1 Salary: € 39,522- € 45,610 per annum

OR

Salary: €46,906- €48,242per annum

Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Closing date: 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on the 28th of April 2022.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ .