Postdoctoral Research Fellow Wanted Nucleic Acid Drug Delivery Research Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Department of Pharmaceutics, VCU The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in interdisciplinary research in nucleic acid drug delivery. The laboratory is located on the Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University in historic downtown Richmond. This health center houses the Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Allied Health Sciences thus providing a rich environment for collaborative research. The research involves investigation of mechanisms of macromolecular drug transport in the body and in cells for the purposes of optimization of therapeutic nucleic acid drug delivery. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Cell or Molecular Biology, or a related discipline and will have expertise in molecular analysis or animal pharmacokinetics.
Preferred experience includes expertise in cell culture and confocal microscopy.
The successful candidate will be expected to work independently under the supervision of the principal investigator to design, conduct, analyze using appropriate statistical analysis, document and report the findings of their research. Laboratory management and student supervision will also be an important component of the fellow s responsibilities. This page does not reflect an official position of Virginia Commonwealth University.