Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research. 

The Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope is looking for highly motivated and creative Postdoctoral Fellows to work in either of the following areas within the laboratories of Dr. Ling Li, Professor in the Department of Hematological Malignancies Translational Science, Department of Pediatrics, and Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research. 1) Identification of novel anti-leukemia target using high-throughput CRISPR genetic screen (e.g., metabolic pathway); 2) Understanding the role of innate immunity during leukemogenesis as well as disease relapse in order to design novel inhibitors to intervene the malignancies; 3) collaborative analyses of myeloid cancers genomics using high-throughput single-cell technology. The group conducts the most forefront science and is highly productive with publications in high-impact journals in the past five years, Nature Cancer (2024), Blood (2022, 2019, 2019), Blood Cancer Journal (2022), Cell Stem Cell (2018). Dr. Li's research program is supported by several NIH (R01s), American Cancer Society, and several other prestigious private awards.

As a successful candidate, you will:

·       Devise, plan, document and advance basic science and translational projects in the relevant research area

·       Collect data for grant applications and prepare manuscripts for publication

·       Work in close collaboration with other team members and external partners from academia and industry, including presentation of progress internally or externally

·       Train and supervise technical staff

Your qualifications should include:

·       PhD with a strong background and profound knowledge in the field of either molecular biology, immunology, cancer biology, genetics, experience in sequencing or protein structural data analysis is highly preferred.

·       Multiple First author publication in high-impact journals

·       Previous experience in working with animal models of human cancers

·       Literature knowledge of one of the three research areas mentioned above

·       Evidence of scientific rigor and excellence as documented by peer-reviewed publications

·       Strong team player with excellent communication skills and fluency in English, both spoken and written

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