We are seeking 3 outstanding postdoctoral researchers and 1 technician to join MyoChip and work closely with the groups of Edgar Gomes and Claudio Franco at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) in Lisbon, Portugal.
MyoChip is a Horizon 2020 project aimed at building a vascularized and innervated skeletal muscle. During 4 years, cell biologists, bio-engineers and computational modelers in 3 institutes and 1 biotech based in Lisbon (iMM), Paris (Institut Curie and Fluigent) and Edinburgh (UoE), will work together to build a muscle on a chip with multiple applications, including drug screening, disease modelling, robotic and prosthetics.
Postdoctoral Profile
Background
PhD degree in the field of Bio-engineering, Cell or Molecular Biology
Experience in at least one of these research fields:
- Biomaterials
- Microdevices
- Microfabrication
- Microfluidics
- Neuroscience
- Myology
- hiPSCs
- Sheet Flow Microfluidics
- Tri-Dimensional tissue engineering
Skills and abilities:
- Scientific Rigor
- Planning, organizing and prioritizing
- Critical thinking
- Resiliency
- English fluency (written and spoken)
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Postdoctoral Positions, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal (2018)