Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Tennessee has multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Apply to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s postdoctoral fellowships today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
A postdoctoral research associate position is immediately available in the laboratory of Dr. Xiang Chen in the department of Computational Biology to develop and apply innovative machine learning/statistical learning approaches to understand interactions between genetic alterations and epigenetic deregulations and to discover potential biomarkers for predicting drug responses in pediatric cancers. One of the premier pediatric research institutions in the world, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital provides exceptional resources, a collaborative environment, and access to extensive, unique cancer genomics datasets from large-scale research initiatives.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Obeng Laboratory is part of the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. The focus of the Obeng Lab is improving our understanding of the pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies including myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We are specifically interested in how acquired mutations in hematopoietic stem cells block mature blood cell differentiation and/or cause leukemic transformation. We are using patient samples, CRISPR-Cas9 gene edited cell lines and induced pluripotent stem cells, and novel xenograft and transgenic mammalian model systems to study the functional consequences of RNA splicing factor and epigenetic regulator mutations on hematopoietic stem cell function and to identify more effective targeted therapies for myeloid diseases.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
3. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The laboratory of Dr. Peijun Ma in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN is a new research group that uses single-cell genomics and transcriptomics to study antibiotic resistance and persistence in bacterial pathogens. Past work has focused on developing bacterial single-cell RNA sequencing technology (Ma et al., Cell, 2023;) and understanding the evolution of antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacterial pathogens (Ma et al., eLife, 2021;).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
A postdoctoral position is available in the Chang lab in the Department of Cell & Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We are looking for highly talented, self-motivated individuals passionate about how organelles communicate. In particular, the candidate will interrogate the fundamental questions of ER-to-Golgi trafficking via cutting-edge light and electron microscopy, genome-editing, biochemistry and in vitro reconstitution approaches. Prerequisites are creativity, dedication, and the ability to work collaboratively in a small group.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control housed at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, is seeking applicants for a full-time mobile Health (mHealth) Research Scientist position for a National Cancer Institute-funded project. The candidate will work with senior faculty members, a project coordinator, Clinical Research Associates, and other researchers to improve health outcomes for aging childhood cancer survivors. The scientist will collaborate with an experienced health informatics/IT team to develop, deploy, and maintain mHealth platforms for collecting patient-reported outcomes and digital health markers for research.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, we provide state-of-the-art technologies, extraordinary support and a collaborative, bench-to-bedside environment. The McKinney-Freeman Lab is seeking outstanding, highly motivated, team-oriented candidates for a Researcher or Senior Researcher to join our efforts to advance our understanding of the fundamental biology of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). HSCs represent the most therapeutically exploited adult stem cell compartment, used routinely to treat leukemia and hematologic disease via HSC transplantation. We seek to 1) illuminate the molecular regulation of HSCs and 2) better understand how the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease compromises HSC function. This knowledge will illuminate strategies to improve HSC transplantation and gene therapy protocols for sickle cell disease.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cell Therapy is looking for a detail-oriented Research Administrator II to join their team. The Research Administrator II serves as a key figure in the research mission of the institution. Duties include independently supporting investigators through the entire proposal submission process; administration of a large, high dollar and varied portfolio of sponsored awards that may include federal and non-federal grants, contracts, subawards, and multiple faculty and locations.
Management of competing priorities while providing excellence in customer service to internal and external customers; ensuring activity records are accurate, appropriately organized and recorded in a timely manner; independently negotiating sponsored agreements and contracts; serving as a training resource for faculty and staff at all levels; identification and dissemination of potential funding sources for faculty constituency; development of documentation of protocols, templates, and additional resources; read; interpret; disseminate and or apply federal and other sponsor guidelines and regulatory documents.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Fischer lab at St. Jude is recruiting a Postdoc for an NIH-funded project that exploits the role of water networks in protein binding sites. We are looking for applicants with a strong training in the gene-to-structure pipeline and/or in structural bioinformatics, and a keen interest or ideally experience in ligand discovery. You will be part of an interdisciplinary team that uses modern structural biology (variable temperature crystallography) to characterize disease-relevant protein states, computational methods (MD, docking, custom software) to analyze and exploit them, and experiments (biophysical, biochemical, cell-based assays) to test the impact of small molecules on biology and disease.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
A Scientist/Senior Scientist position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Victor J. Torres, the incoming chair of the Department of Host-Microbe Interactions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Torres lab is interested in dissecting the complex interactions between pathogenic bacteria and the mammalian host. Currently, the lab is focusing on antibiotic resistant (AMR) bacteria, which have been recognized by the World Health Organization as a serious threat to human health. We take advantage of multidisciplinary approaches and combine techniques from bacteriology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, cellular biology, and immunology with primary tissue culture models and a variety of murine models of infection, to address our favorite questions.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The biochemists will join the inter-disciplinary Blue Sky Initiative “Seeing the Invisible in Protein Kinases”, which is supported by US$50M in institutional funding by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This large-scale project extends the ultra-high field NMR spectroscopy and biochemistry approaches developed by the Kalodimos lab (Science 2020, 370, eabc2754), complemented by cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, data-science and computational strategies, to study the human kinome. The initiative aims to detect and structurally characterize the distinct conformational states populated by kinases, and to dissect mechanisms of allosteric regulation and those underpinning oncogenic and drug-resistance mutations. We expect this initiative to have a profound impact on the field, transforming our understanding of protein kinases.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases assists the Principal Investigator with the collection and analysis of data for specified research projects involving influenza viruses. Experience with virology, molecular biology and cell culture techniques is preferred. The Researcher properly conducts specific projects and maintains efficient laboratory operations, performs other duties as assigned or directed to meet the goals and objectives of the Department and the Institution.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a highly motivated and creative Researcher to assist in the development and clinical testing of novel methods to improved cancer treatment outcomes in the Pharmacotyping Resource, located in the Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. The Pharmacotyping Resource is a translational laboratory with a strong emphasis on functional precision medicine and collaborative pharmacogenomics research that will translate to improving patient therapy. The resource uses a state-of-the-art fluorescence imaging platform to test drug sensitivity profiles (pharmacotyping) of a variety of pathologic tissues obtained from children with catastrophic diseases, with a focus on pediatric cancer.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We have a Scientist opportunity in the Department of Structural Biology.
- Design and safely perform experiments utilizing modern organic synthetic and analytical techniques.
- Propose synthetic routes for new analogs, identify and solve synthetic challenges.
- Maintain clear and accurate records of experimental work.
- Prepare summaries of work for presentations and reports.
- Provide scientific insight and effectively communicate.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is paving the way to markedly accelerate the discovery of therapeutic targets and approaches for childhood cancer by partnering with two of the world’s leading research institutions. This new strategic project will use a “team science” approach to use cutting-edge and exploratory technologies to identify vulnerabilities, biological mechanisms, and new combination therapies for children with cancer. St. Jude is seeking to hire a Senior Researcher to join the Core for Genomic and Epigenetic Assays (CGEA) as part of this exciting new large-scale scientific collaboration.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a self-motivated and organized individual to fill a Researcher or Senior Researcher positions in the laboratory of Dr. Victor J. Torres, the incoming chair of the Department of Host-Microbe Interactions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Torres lab is interested in dissecting the complex interactions between pathogenic bacteria and the mammalian host. Our goal is to understand the basic principles of bacterial pathogenesis as well as to develop a platform for the discovery of targets that could be exploited for the generation of much-needed therapies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Obeng Laboratory is part of the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Research in the Obeng lab centers on the pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies including myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We are investigating how acquired somatic mutations in hematopoietic stem cells lead to clonal hematopoiesis and malignant transformation. The major interests of the Obeng lab are (1) determining how mutations in components of the mRNA spliceosome and epigenetic regulators cooperate to cause clonal hematopoiesis and leukemia (2) identifying and studying novel treatments that selectively target mutant stem cells and (3) determining the incidence and clinical significance of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) in pediatric cancer survivors.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated scientist to join the newly formed Center of Excellence in Innate Immunity and Inflammation (CoE-III) to work with Dr. Thirumala Devi-Kanneganti. The mission of the CoE-III is to define innate immune mechanisms driving health and disease, with key focus areas of understanding the fundamental mechanisms of III and investigating III across the disease spectrum, from infection to inflammatory diseases and cancer.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoc Research Associate to join Dr. Ji Sun’s lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Successful candidates will lead research projects focusing on disease-causing protein complexes, using an integrative approach combining structural, biochemical, and cell biology methods (Myasnikov A et al., Cell 2021; Zhu H et al., Biorxiv 2022, Jiang M et al., Cell Research, 2023). The lab has full access to the state-of-the-art cryo-EM facility in St. Jude, which houses a 300kV Titan Krios and a 200 kV Talos Arctica electron microscope equipped with K3 detectors.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
19. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Baker Lab in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is seeking a Lead Researcher to leverage CRISPR/Cas dependency screening to investigate vulnerabilities of incurable pediatric high-grade glioma. The ideal candidate is rigorous, technically skilled, and experienced with in vivo tumor models, including patient-derived xenografts, and/or in vitro culture of primary and established cancer and/or stem cell lines. Experience with brain tumors and neural stem cells is preferred.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
20. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, we provide state-of-the-art technologies, extraordinary support and a collaborative, bench-to-bedside environment. The McKinney-Freeman Lab is seeking outstanding, highly motivated, team-oriented candidates for a Senior Researcher to join our efforts to advance our understanding of the fundamental biology of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
HSCs represent the most therapeutically exploited adult stem cell compartment, used routinely to treat leukemia and hematologic disease via HSC transplantation. We seek to 1) illuminate the molecular regulation of HSCs and 2) better understand how the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease compromises HSC function. This knowledge will illuminate strategies to improve HSC transplantation and gene therapy protocols for sickle cell disease.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Yu Lab within the Department of Computational Biology is currently seeking exceptional candidates for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position with a focus on single-cell & spatial omics and systems immunology. The Yu Lab is dedicated to developing advanced systems biology algorithms, such as NetBID (Du, Nature 2018), NetBID2 (Dong, Nat Common, 2023), and scMINER (Ding, in revision). These algorithms integrate multi-omics data at both bulk and single-cell levels to dissect intracellular and intercellular network dynamics in healthy and diseased states, identify underlying hidden drivers, and ultimately translate these discoveries into potential clinical applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
22. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
As part of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Taylor lab is focused on understanding how condensates form and organize, what functions they serve, and how they are corrupted by disease-relevant mutations. Our research is focused on RNA granules as prototypical biomolecular condensates to tease out generalizable principles about how condensation occurs within cells. We are also focused on the functions served by these biomolecular condensates specifically, the mechanisms underlying conditional sequestration and the regulation of RNA editing, as well as the regulation of neuronal translation by mRNA sequestration. As a Senior Researcher on the Taylor Lab Team, you will serve as an integral bridge between interdisciplinary research teams within the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology to help coordinate our comprehensive effort to study the assembly and function of biomolecular condensates and how disturbance of condensates contributes to disease.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
23. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
The Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is seeking a highly motivated Researcher to join the lab of Dr. Krenciute. The Researcher will performs laboratory tasks under direct supervision. Expected to understand underlying concepts of experimental design and to implement these concepts under direct supervision. In addition, the Researcher will be responsible for coordinating efficient laboratory operations, keeping accurate data records and notebooks, and performing other duties as assigned or directed in order to meet the goals and objectives of the lab.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
24. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
Several postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Victor J. Torres in the new Department of Host-Microbe Interactions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Torres lab is interested in dissecting the complex interactions between pathogenic bacteria and the mammalian host. Currently, the lab is focusing on antibiotic resistant (AMR) bacteria, which have been recognized by the World Health Organization as a serious threat to human health. We take advantage of multidisciplinary approaches and combine techniques from bacteriology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, cellular biology, and immunology with primary tissue culture models and a variety of murine models of infection, to address our favorite questions.
Application Deadline: Open until filled