Postdoctoral Fellow - Radiation Physics - Research

A postdoctoral fellow position is available in the Sawakuchi lab at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to work on projects funded by UT MD Anderson, NIH-NCI (P01 and R01) and industry. The Sawakuchi Lab focuses on novel methods to sensitize cancer to radiation while minimizing toxicities to normal tissues.

We are interested in understanding how defects in DNA repair and metabolism can be leveraged to sensitize cancers, but not normal tissue, to radiation and how this combination of radiation and DNA repair/metabolism defects can be used to stimulate an antitumor immune response. Our projects use different types and radiation and sources including photons, protons, alpha particles, beta particles and low energy electrons from external sources radiation or radioisotopes.

The postdoctoral fellow will engage in radiobiology research to understand how different types of radiation induce cellular damage and how the cells cope with the damage. Job duties include performing Monte Carlo simulations; assisting with in vitro and in vivo experiments; writing experimental protocols, reports, abstracts and manuscripts; assisting with writing of research proposals; assisting with generating preliminary data for research proposals; presenting in scientific meetings; assisting with laboratory management.