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Job Offers at Łukasiewicz – PORT
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Education and Scientific Experience
- PhD in biotechnology, molecular biology, biomedical sciences, immunology, or a related discipline. Candidates who have not yet formally obtained their PhD may also apply, provided that their PhD defence is scheduled within the next three months.
- Documented experience in experimental and laboratory research in molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, oncology, or a related field.
- Experience in research involving clinical samples and validation models, particularly in the context of biomaterials and implant-associated materials, would be an advantage.
- Documented scientific track record, including publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and/or active participation in scientific conferences.
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in molecular, cellular, and immunological techniques, with experience in independently planning, conducting, optimising, and documenting experiments.
- Experience working with human clinical material, particularly fresh and FFPE tissues, blood, and isolated cell populations.
- Hands-on experience in immunological and molecular profiling using methods such as FC, IHC, IF, WB, and ELISA.
- Experience in developing, optimising, and validating antibody panels and methods for biomarker identification and characterisation.
- Experience with mIF, digital pathology, and quantitative and spatial image analysis will be an additional asset.
- Familiarity with spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and other high-throughput approaches for profiling clinical samples will be an advantage.
- Ability to integrate, critically analyse, and biologically interpret data generated across different experimental platforms, as well as to formulate and test research hypotheses.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot experimental workflows, optimise methods, and assess the quality and reliability of experimental results.
- Experience collaborating with clinical, pathology, bioinformatics, and analytical teams will be an additional asset.
- Very good command of English, enabling effective scientific communication, manuscript preparation, and presentation and discussion of research findings in an international environment.
Personal Competencies
- Strong motivation to conduct high-quality scientific research and further develop a research career.
- Independence, proactivity, and accountability for assigned research tasks and the quality of generated data.
- Srong commitment to publishing research findings and systematically building a scientific track record.
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to troubleshoot experimental problems and draw evidence-based conclusions from research data.
- Ability to work effectively within interdisciplinary and international research teams.
- Excellent organisational skills, reliability, ability to meet deadlines, and a high standard of research documentation.
We are seeking an ambitious and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team conducting research projects in translational oncology. Our research combines advanced molecular biology, immunology, and histopathology methods with the analysis of clinical samples and human cell-based models. The project will focus on BIA-ALCL and will be conducted in collaboration with an international research consortium.
We are looking for a researcher who is strongly motivated to pursue scientific research and further develop their academic career. The successful candidate should be independent, proactive, and ready to take responsibility for their research activities. The ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary and international environment is essential, as is a strong commitment to publishing research findings, building a high-quality scientific track record, and actively shaping their own research career.
- Plan, conduct, document, and report experiments in the field of translational oncology and immunobiology.
- Conduct laboratory research using human biological and clinical material, including tissues, cells, blood, and FFPE samples.
- Perform research aimed at the identification and molecular validation of biomarkers and the development and validation of novel diagnostic tools.
- Apply and optimise molecular, cellular, immunological, and histopathological methods on analisys.
- Apply digital pathology tools, including digitisation of histopathological slides and quantitative image analysis.
- Participate in the analysis, critical evaluation, and interpretation of molecular, histopathological, and spatial data, in collaboration with data analysis specialists.
- Develop, optimise, and document research protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs), ensuring the quality, reproducibility, and reliability of experimental results.
- Actively contribute to scientific publications, present research findings at national and international conferences, and build an independent scientific track record.
- Collaborate with clinical, pathology, experimental, and analytical teams within national and international research projects.
- Full-time employment contract
- Co-financing of private medical care
- Co-financing of a sports and wellness card
- Option to enrol in group life insurance
- Co-financing through the Social Benefits Fund (including holiday and Christmas benefits)
- Work in a modern, green science campus environment
- Free on-site parking
Senior Specialist – Senior Research Engineer in Cancer Neurophysiology Reasearch Group
2 days to expiry- PhD in Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Proven experience working with laboratory mice.
- Experience in rodent surgery and regulated animal procedures.
- Experience with behavioural assays in rodents.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to work independently.
- Willingness to travel and present research internationally.
- Experience with neuropathic pain models.
- Experience with in vivofunctional imaging (especially one- or two-photon calcium imaging).
- Experience with viral vectors (AAV) and stereotaxic or neonatal injections.
- Experience with image analysis and quantitative data analysis (Python, MATLAB or R).
- Experience with computational analysis of large biological datasets.
You will join the international consortium “DECIPHER: Deciphering the role of CD90+ stromal cells in neuropathic pain”, funded under the ERA-NET programme. The consortium aims to uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying chronic neuropathic pain and to establish the foundations for novel targeted analgesic therapies. The project is based on the hypothesis that CD90+ stromal cells play a central role in driving and maintaining peripheral sensory neuron hyperexcitability, thereby contributing to persistent neuropathic pain independently of classical inflammation. Your work will focus on the preclinical validation of newly identified therapeutic targets using complementary mouse models of neuropathic pain, integrating behavioural neuroscience with advanced in vivo neurophysiology (pharmacological interventions and functional calcium imaging and multi-electrode arrays, MEA).
You will specialise in advanced in vivo neurophysiology, combining behavioural neuroscience with functional optical imaging of sensory neurons. Using viral delivery of genetically encoded calcium indicators (AAV9-GCaMP6s), you will perform large-scale in vivo calcium imaging of dorsal root ganglion (L3/L4 DRG) neurons together with quantitative behavioural assessment of neuropathic pain. The project combines state-of-the-art optical imaging, pharmacological intervention, computational data analysis and translational neuroscience in close collaboration with leading European laboratories.
The successful candidate will be employed full-time for 36 months within an internationally funded collaborative project and will have the opportunity to work with leading European groups in translational pain neuroscience while developing expertise in advanced systems neuroscience and preclinical therapeutic validation.
You will be responsible for the experimental implementation of the preclinical work package (WP3). Your responsibilities will include:
- performing regulated animal procedures and inducing mouse models of neuropathic pain,
- carrying out behavioural phenotyping (mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity assays together with automated home-ge monitoring),
- performing terminal in vivocalcium imaging experiments from dorsal root ganglion neurons,
- administering and evaluating novel therapeutic compounds, including monoclonal antibodies and receptor ligands,
- analysing large-scale neuronal population imaging datasets using computational pipelines,
- maintaining high-quality experimental documentation and metadata,
- presenting results during consortium meetings and international conferences,
- contributing to manuscript preparation and dissemination of project results.
· Co-financing of private medical care.
· Co-financing of a sports and wellness card.
· Option to enrol in group life insurance.
· Co-financing through the Social Benefits Fund (including holiday and Christmas benefits).
· Work in a modern, green science campus environment.
· Free on-site parking.
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