Postdoctoral Researcher

In the role of aPostdoctoral Researcher,you will be working in the Department of Medicine to understand the complexities of Diabetes and Obesity. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), a postdoc is an individual who has received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) and is engaged in a temporary and defined period of mentored advanced research training to enhance the professional skills and research independence needed to pursue his or her chosen career path. In addition, according to the National Postdoc Association (NPA), Postdoctoral appointees can pursue basic, clinical or translational projects so long as their primary effort is devoted toward their own scholarship. Postdocs are essential to the scholarly mission of the mentor and host institution, and thus are expected to have the freedom to publish the results of their scholarship.

Candidates need to be eligible for T32 training programs.

Characteristics of a postdoctoral appointment:

It is expected that postdocs at MCW, with the assistance of their supervisor, will:

• Transition to career independence through the development of professional skills that enable the postdoc to actively pursue a career of his/her own choosing.

• Be supervised by at least one senior scholar who actively promotes the postdoc’s professional development.

• Establish an individual development plan (IDP) that incorporates equally the postdoc’s career and training goals and the mentor’s research goals.

• Pursue basic, clinical, or translational projects so long as effort is focused primarily on research.

• Publish results of the postdoc’s research and scholarship during their appointment.

• The postdoctoral appointment is temporary by nature, the aggregate amount of time spent as a postdoc is recommended to not exceed five years (not including family medical leave or maternity/paternity leave).

• Plan, design and execute complex research studies, procedures and protocols.

• Participate in discovery projects.

• Coordinate research study activities; lead and manage projects.

• Oversee organization, synthesis and analysis of data and findings.

• Prepare scientific reports, outcome findings and scientific manuscripts.

• Participate in meetings with principle investigator and research staff in which you will evaluate/interpret the validity of data, develop methodologies, and design and evaluate lab procedures.

• Maintain supplies, may require negotiation with vendors, and track purchase orders.

• May oversee the work of laboratory personnel including training and development as well as daily work direction, delegation and establishing priorities.

• As postdocs are important members of the host institution’s community, appropriate levels of compensation, health care, and other benefits commensurate with their essential status should be afforded, independent of the postdoc’s source of funding.

• Required knowledge: biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, documentation, records management, data utilization, complex problem solving, critical thinking, resource management, and writing skills.

Minimum Required education: PhD in a scientific field or MD

Minimum Required experience: 0-3 years of prior postdoc experience

Preferred Experience: Familiarity with genetic mouse models, mouse handling and tissue dissection and experience in purifying proteins from tissue expression system. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and GraphPad Prism. Tissue culture experience. Isolation and culturing mouse primary pre adipocytes from adipose tissue, and immunofluorescence staining of cells and imaging