Junior Postdoctoral Researcher (Bioengineer)

The Department of Biomedicine (DBM) belongs to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. The DBM promotes basic and translational biomedical research at the highest international level. The Inner Ear Research group, part of the Department of Biomedicine, offers Postdoctoral positions (100%)

About us

To date no medicines are available to address the debilitating condition of hearing loss which is impacting over half a billion people worldwide. A total of 43 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies have been identified as developing therapeutics for inner ear and central hearing disorders. None of the new products being tested have yet arrived to the clinical market, and a large proportion are still in the preclinical phase, and many did not meet the end point or their development has been stopped. Drug delivery is an additional problem in inner ear therapies development.

We are an ambitious small team with one big mission: To develop an inner ear cell derived organ on a chip that is environmentally, ethically and economically sustainable.

For the first time ever an organ on a chip with inner ear human cells will be fabricated. We seek to circumvent the use of animal models with the alternative in vitro 3D cell culture model. This chip would provide tools for investigating specific contributions of the inner ear to physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying hearing loss. This project is supported by Innosuisse.