Postdoc Fellow in Neurogenetics

Job Reference Number: BB001
Job Title: Postdoc Fellow in Neurogenetics
Contract Type: Three Years
Working Pattern: Full Time
Place: Beijing Tiantan Hospital Affiliate******** Capital MedicalUniversity
PI: Yue Huang
Closing Date: 5th May 2018

ABOUT US
Brain Bank at China National Clinical Research Centre (simplifie********Centre Brain Bank), is locate******** Beijing Tiantan Hospitalaffiliate******** Capital Medical Un******** China. Currently, over 40tertiary hospitals across China have joine******** an******** the CentreBrain Bank Consortium to fully ultilise clinical resources to tackleneurological disorders. The ultimate mission of the Consortium is tocure the currently incurable neurological ******** such as Parkinson’s******** Alzheimer’s ******** an******** brain ******** etc. Theshort-term goals of the Consortium are to enhance patient carean********, prevent brain ******** an******** precision medicine. Toachieve these goals, we will apply interdisciplinary approaches (such asclinicopathological stu******** molecular stu******** etc) to elucidatethe fundamental an******** ******** an******** investigate thepathogenesis of those age-relate******** neurological diseasesan******** disorders with clear genetic causes.

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are recruiting a highly motivate******** to investigate geneticcontributions to neurological ******** ******** but not limite********,Parkinson’s ******** Alzheimer’s ******** cerebral vascular ********neural inherite********, etc.
The consortium has large clinical cohorts an********-base******** totest genetic roles in those neurological disorders.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
PhD graduate with a strong backgroun******** bioinformatics an********biology is required. Candidates shoul******** able to demonstrate atrack recor******** independent productive research, willingness toassist supervising postgraduates an******** other group members ifrequired. The candidate shall have strong organisational sk********written an******** English an******** language skills. Ph.D withbachelor degree in medicine is desirable.
Experience in: GWAS, PCR, an********/Northern/Western blott**************** single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA Seq), an****************biology/genomic (Next Generation Sequencing) analysis.

Potential
Excellent candidate coul******** a faculty member of Beijing TiantanHospital affiliate******** Capital Medical Un******** Ch******** whenthe term finishes.
To submit your appl******** please email your CV, cover letteran******** detail of three referees to the email ********.