PhD student (m/f/d) Medizinische Klinik I (Kardiologie)

The Hospital of the University of Munich, Germany, is one of the largest and most competitive university hospitals in Germany and Europe. 49 specialized hospitals, departments and institutions harbouring excellent research and education provide patient care at the highest medical level with around 11.000 employees.

The Medizinische Klinik I (Kardiologie) on the Campus Großhadern invites applications for the department Cardiology at the earliest possible date, in part-time, for a

PhD student (m/f/d)
Medizinische Klinik I (Kardiologie)

Scope of duties
* You will work in the context of complex human diseases, within the DFGCRC 1123 CRC 914, TRR 359 as well as the ERC Grant T-MEMORE on translational mechanisms and networks of novel therapeutic as well as diagnostic immune targets in cardiovascular diseases by single-cell based multiomics approaches as well as advanced imaging approaches and advanced in vitro setups
* You will work in close collaboration with clinicians and will conduct targeted multiomics analyses of clinical high-throughput data (bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, proteomics, flow cytometry in combination with clinical data on patient outcome)
* You will contribute on the development of integrative bioinformatics methods for answering complex biological questions, particularly in the domain of network integrative methods
* You will present the results at project meetings and publish them in high-ranking scientific journals

Our requirements
* The applicant should have a major interest in cardiovascular immunology and innate immunity
* Good knowledge in scientific scripting and programming languages like Python3 or R; good knowledge in C/C++ and/or Java is beneficial but not obligatory
* Experience with the analysis of experimental data and high-throughput data ((sc)RNA-seq, proteomics, etc.) is a plus
* Further we expect strong communication and teamwork skills

Our offer
We provide an interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, biologists and bioinformaticians, jointly working on cardiovascular immunology and innate immunity using broad multiomic measures. We further provide reverse translation of the key findings, identified by multiomics, to disease models and advanced in vitro models. A PhD or a Dr. rer. nat, Dr. biol. hum., Dr. med. are possible. In addition we offer further education and training, childcare services, mobile work (if suitable), company pension scheme, job ticket, discounts and staff accommodation.

Disabled persons will be preferentially considered in case of equal qualification. Presentation costs cannot be refunded. For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Konstantin Stark, phone: +49 89 4400-73053.

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LMU Klinikum – Campus Großhadern
Medizinische Klinik I (Kardiologie)
Marchioninistraße 15, 81377 Munich, Germany