Postdoctoral Associate

The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral associate to study aortic aneurysms and dissections. The purpose of the research is to understand the molecular mechanisms of vascular injury, repair and remodeling during aortic disease development. Signal transduction and gene expression regulation in vascular wall will be investigated using different techniques in molecular biology, cell biology and vascular biology.
 

• Performs experiments: 
  • Animal breeding and genotyping to generate tissue specific gene knockout mice. 
  • Animal surgery and vascular imaging.
  • Human and animal tissue analysis (e.g. histology analysis, immunostaining, Western blotting and RT- PCR).
  • Advanced technology such as single cell RNA sequencing will be used
• Analyzes data.
• Presents findings at national and international meetings.
• Prepares manuscripts for publication. 

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.

• Three - Four years of experience in basic science research.
• Motivated individual with strong work ethic, good organizational and communication skills.

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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PD; CA