Postdoctoral Fellowships, Research Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia (2017)

The Research Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov University (Russia) is seeking candidates for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to perform researches in the priority research areas and to provide competitive research results at the international level. The Research Institute of Molecular Medicine was founded in 2000 as a division of the Sechenov University in the light of the tremendous scientific and technical progress at the end of the second millennium. The emergence of new technologies in biology took medical science to the level of studying intermolecular interactions. There was a need for specialized academic medical institution which would be engaged in a study of the causes and mechanisms of human diseases, the development of adequate methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases carried out at the molecular and cellular levels.

The institute specializes on: clinical laboratory diagnostics, laboratory genetics, management and economics in the field of pharmaceutics and others. Its also engaged in fundamental biomedical research.

Main areas of research:

Development of approaches for creating drugs of a new generation,
Development of methods of early detection and diagnostic tools, and their pre-clinical investigations and referrals for clinical trials on the basis of modern achievements in molecular biology and genetic engineering.
Professionals working in these areas should combine a natural approach and high level of engineering thinking. It is essential that such an institution has links with the international scientific community to ensure the integration of Russian science in the global research process.

The Institute is composed of the managerial board and 9 research units: 2 divisions and 7 laboratories.

The basic principle of the institute in regards to the personnel policy is - continuous improvement of professional skills and increase of the scientific level of personnel. All employees have a degree in either: medicine, biology, pharmacology or chemistry and most are Ph.D. candidates.

Further details:
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