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Source: MD Anderson Cancer Center careers · View original posting
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The Shengqing (Stan) Gu lab at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong biomedical research background to join our team. The Gu laboratory is an interdisciplinary ang highly collaborative team focused on understanding how dysregulation of cell-cell interactions shape tumor development and drive immune evasion - a key process underlying cancer progression and therapy resistance.
We are seeking a well-organized, highly motivated postdoctoral fellow with extensive experience in cancer immunology and/or computational biology. The fellow will work closely with local experimental and/or computational collaborators in seeking to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy, such as by modulating cancer antigen presentation or elucidating the evolution of immune evasion. In addition, the fellow will also benefit from collaborations with former colleagues of Dr. Gu at many institutes.
All duties and responsibilities are carried out in compliance with institutional policies, ethical research standards, and applicable federal and state regulations.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Dr. Gu is strongly committed to the professional fulfillment and career advancement of all trainees. He will work on creating a successful transition plan to academia or industry for the fellow in accordance with their evolving preferences. The fellow will have access to the rich research platforms at UT MD Anderson and more broadly the Texas Medical Center, including computation cluster, single-cell core facility, epigenetics core facility, flow cytometry facilities, drug screening core, animal colony, among many others.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Highly motivated individuals who have obtained or are about to obtain a PhD in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or related areas are encouraged to apply. Proven track record of publications, excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Preferences will be given to those with research experience in immunology, CRISPR screening, animal models, or cancer genomics.
ADDITIONAL APPLICATION INFORMATION
Ongoing projects include: (1) Modulating cancer antigen presentation to potentiate immunotherapy; (2) Mapping the evolutionary trajectories of immune evasion in cancer development. To address these questions, we integrate various cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches in the areas of functional genomics, single cell/spatial multi-omics, cell biology, biochemistry, data mining, machine learning, and mathematical modeling, among others.
This position offers an exceptional opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cancer biology, immunology, and computational biology within a highly collaborative environment. More research details can be found at: https://www.mdanderson.org/research/departments-labs-institutes/labs/gu-laboratory.html
Dr. Gu graduated from University of Toronto with a PhD in Medical Biophysics, did postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and joined MD Anderson Cancer Center as Assistant Professor in November 2022. He has excellent track record in highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research in cancer biology, immunology, and computational biology, as demonstrated by recent (co)first and corresponding author papers/preprints:
Cancer immunology: (Jiang, Gu, Pan et al., Nature Medicine, 2018; Gu, Wang, Hu et al., Genome Biology, 2020; Shi, Gu et al., Clinical Cancer Research, 2020; Gu, Zhang, Wang, Jiang et al., Cancer Discovery, 2021; Wang, Tokheim, Gu, Wang et al., Cell, 2021; Zeng, Gu et al., Cancer Immunology Research, 2022)
This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.
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