Post-Doctoral Positions to the European Research Area - Translational Stem Cell Biology

The Medical University – Varna, Bulgaria, is looking for 2 full time Post-doctoral fellows to join the research team of the ERA Chair of Translational Stem Cell Biology, at the newly established Research Institute of MU-Varna (RIMUV). ERA Chair leads a newly established and outstanding team of researchers, to improve the excellence of the research and innovation landscape in Bulgaria, working on basic and clinical research involving the use of adult stem cells.

Working in close collaboration with the ERA Chair, he/she will participate in, and develop on a day-to-day basis, one of the following research projects:

Project 1: study of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), their interaction with their microenvironment (niche), their homing and mobilization as well as intervention in their function using genetic modification (CRISPR/Cas9). Moreover, the project will focus on microvesicles/exosomes as a tool for stem cells cross-communication with other supporting and differentiated cells.

‍Project 2: elucidate the function and cultivation of human limbal stem cells (LSC). Moreover, the project will focus on: a) cell and tissue therapies for acquired of LSC deficiency (LCSD); b) LSC cultivated for transplantation as a surgical treatment; c) Cell differentiation in vitro in order to produce corneal cells from different populations.

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