Postdoctoral Fellow; Biological Sciences

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The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last four years) been awarded a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, or Immunology from an accredited University

The employee will have already acquired a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and should be able to exercise scientific judgment daily. They will evaluate incoming information through experimental data and observations, written literature documentation, and oral communications and use this information to make judgments about what step(s) will next lead to progress. The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. Preferable expertise: Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in immunooncology. Experience in using mouse models of cancer will be a plus.

The Mukherjee Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte employs a range of molecular, biochemical, and immunological technologies including cell culture, murine models of cancers, proteomics, genomics, T cell and NK cell engineering, antibody engineering. More information can be found on the Mukherjee webpage: https://biology.charlotte.edu/directory/pinku-mukherjee-phd/. We seek highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to study the efficacy of immunotherapeutic strategies including vaccines in combination with other immune therapies and chemotherapies in epithelial cancers with focus in pancreatic, breast, and colon cancers. The employee will report to Dr. Mukherjee and Zhou, supporting projects through original research, collaboration with other team members, and mentoring of students. The employee will also contribute to additional proposal efforts, thereby strengthening UNC Charlotte's ability to attract external funding. The employee will confer with Dr. Mukherjee and Zhou on overall research direction and strategy but will exercise a considerable amount of independent judgment and original thinking in carrying out research that contributes to original knowledge and advances the University's reputation in research. The employee will publish research results, in collaboration with Dr. Mukherjee and Zhou in recognized journals. The employee will share student mentoring with Dr. Mukherjee and Zhou and will participate in departmental seminars and other professional activities as assigned.

A Postdoctoral Fellow ("postdoc") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs' aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees. Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions: the appointee was recently (within the last eight years) awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.); the appointment is temporary; the appointment involves substantially fulltime research or scholarship; the appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career; the appointee works under the supervision of a faculty member; and the appointee has the freedom and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. Applicants subject to criminal background check. The candidate chosen for this position will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree. The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to a criminal background check.