Post-Doc Research Associate - Okuda Lab

University of North Carolina, United States

Updated: over 1 year ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 04 Dec 2022

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Department Marsico Lung Inst - CF Center - 426401
Posting Open Date 12/01/2022
Application Deadline 12/04/2022
Open Until Filled No
Position Type Postdoctoral Scholar
Position Title Post-Doc Research Associate - Okuda Lab
Vacancy ID PDS003680
Full-time/Part-time Full-Time Temporary
Hours per week 40
FTE 1
Work Location Chapel Hill, NC
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range $55,000
Proposed Start Date 04/01/2023
Estimated Duration of Appointment 24 Months

Position Information


Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary
The goal of the Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center is to provide the mechanism for generating world-class research into the pathogenesis and treatment of disease that impact on the airways of the human lung. The focus will be on muco-obstruction in lung diseases. The research in the laboratory focuses on the biology and physiology of airway secretions in general, mucus in particular, and how these properties relate to mucus transport in the mammalian lung in health and disease. The research activities will involve a series of in vitro measurements of mucus biophysical properties, couple to in vivo measurements of mucus transport, that may include simple measures of particle transport, and optical coherence tomography (OCT). The research activities may also include new single cell sequencing approaches, RNA scope techniques, and CRISPR/Cas9 based gene editing in primary human airway epithelial cells. Notably, you may be expected to be involved in full-time research on a wide range of topics, including the study of bronchiectasis utilizing a new animal model, studies of ER stress modulation of mucin gene expression, and studies involving characterization of sputum/mucus properties of human samples.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
PhD/MD and at least two years of experience in Respiratory Medicine would be desirable.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Ability to assist in the basic science research of human pulmonary disease.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Preferred qualifications include:
 * An understanding of pulmonary physiology in health and disease as well as pulmonary medicine
* Experience interfacing with subjects with normal human pulmonary physiology and subjects with diseases that can be characterized as muco-obstructive, i.e. COPD, asthma or CF
* Excellent understanding of general medical and scientific, skills and abilities to apply expertise to novel experimental systems
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
N/A
Special Instructions
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