Post Doctoral Associate
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- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Location
- 55 Lake Ave North
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- Postdoc
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
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About UMass Chan Medical School:
UMass Chan Medical School and its clinical partner, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, is a thriving academic health care system located in Worcester MA, about an hour’s drive west of Boston. The environment provides a highly supportive home for fellows, with opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers and engage in meaningful clinical work.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMMS recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds.
About The Program in Microbiome Dynamics (PMD):
The Program in Microbiome Dynamics was established in 2020 as an institutionally supported program within the Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems (MaPS). The mission of this program is to unify investigators who are taking the next critical step in the microbiome sciences. Critically, this step involves hypothesis-driven approaches that isolate components of the microbiota associated with disease phenotypes of interest and evaluates cause and effect between changes in the microbiome and development of disease. In parallel, the Program will also leverage the diverse computational platforms that currently exist within the UMMS system. These platforms allow the Program to develop innovative methods and technologies to improve how data are collected and analyzed, ultimately leading to new scientific discoveries and therapeutic advancement in patient care. Programmatically, the PMD integrates mathematical modeling from early stage planning all the way through to pre-clinical investigations in animal model systems into both basic and clinical research projects. The PMD consists of diverse community and network of researchers, computer engineers, systems biologists, scientists, and clinicians with a common interest in microbiome research. To date, the PMD consists of 5 full time tenure-track faculty members along with a full-service state-of-the-art infrastructure to support all aspects of the microbiome enterprise that are available to the institution at large.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
A doctoral degree is required. Applicants with strong methodological, statistical, and computational experience are desirable.
How to Apply:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Please send a detailed letter of interest that specifies the fellowship of interest and summarizes relevant experiences and career goals, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to: john.haran@umassmed.edu
John P. Haran
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine, Microbiology and Physiological Systems
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
55 Lake Ave North
Worcester, MA 01655
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
Jumpstart your professional career in microbiome sciences by focusing on the microbiome-gut-brain axis with national innovators at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. This post-doctoral fellowship focuses on integrating clinical and basic microbiology with neurosciences, immunology, animal medicine, computational biology and applied mathematics. This fellowship uniquely focused on translational medicine where observations from human studies are brought into the lab and studied in model systems with the goal of better understanding of how microbial dysbiosis affects neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. The ultimate goals are development of medical microbiome therapeutics that can be brough back to the patient. Fellows will work on existing NIH-funded clinical and translational studies and help with grant submissions. Fellows will also work on the development of novel dynamical systems modeling and deep learning methods to predict the dynamics of the microbiome and how they impact host biology. Applications of these methods will include forecasting microbial population and metabolite dynamics that are constrained on longitudinal data from human clinical trials, predicting interactions with the host immune system, and using the models to perform combinatorial analysis to identify microbial combinations and functions maximizing host phenotypes of interest. Current active research includes CDC, DOD, NIA, NIAID, NIDDK, and foundational funded projects. Fellows will primarily work primarily with John P. Haran, MD, PhD https://www.umassmed.edu/haranresearchgroup/ and Vanni Bucci PhD https://vannibucci.wordpress.com/about/ . This combination of mentorship will allow applicants a diverse training to jumpstart a career in this exciting and rapidly advancing field.
Opportunities with other UMass faculty, include Beth McCormick, PhD
https://www.umassmed.edu/mccormicklab/ , Paul Greer https://greer-lab.com , other PMD members https://www.umassmed.edu/pmd/ and others are also available based on career aspirations of the fellow. Applicants with strong methodological, statistical, and computational experience are desirable.
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- Valued Partnerships – UMMS partners with Commonwealth Medicine, the health care consulting arm of UMMS. Also, UMMS partners with MassBiologics in scientific collaborations, technology management and creating partnerships for the development of products for the benefit of patients. These valued partnerships help us to provide services and programs to help meet our needs at UMMS and the public.
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Competitive Compensation – UMMS offers salaries that are competitive with Worcester-area employers. When combined with our generous benefits, perks, and paid time off, many job seekers are surprised to find a total rewards package that matches or exceeds their current situation.
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A History of Making Vital Improvements - UMASS Medical School Milestones
1962: Legislation establishes University of Massachusetts Medical School
1970: First medical students begin classes in Shaw Building
1974: First class graduates 16 MDs
1979: PhD program begins
1986: Graduate School of Nursing opens
1986: PhD program becomes Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
1994: Graduate School of Nursing initiates PhD program
1998: UMass Clinical System and Memorial Health Care merge to form UMass Memorial Health Care
2001: Lazare Research Building opens
2002: Campus Modernization begins on the University Campus
2004: Graduate Entry Pathway Program established at the Graduate School of Nursing
2005: PhD Program in Clinical & Population Health Research established at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
2005: Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories opens new manufacturing and filling facility in Mattapan
2006: Craig Mello, PhD, Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is awarded the Medical School's first Nobel Prize. Dr. Mello shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Fire, PhD, of Stanford University, for their discoveries related to RNA interference.
2007: Michael F. Collins, MD, is named chancellor and Terence R. Flotte, MD, is named dean of the School of Medicine.
2009: Groundbreaking for the Albert Sherman Center, a 500,000-square-foot research and education facility slated for completion in 2012.
2010: Ambulatory Care Center opens
2012: The Albert Sherman Center, a 500,000-square-foot research and education facility, completed and opens
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