Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cancer Biology

(Ref-No. 2019-0256)

The Pediatric Oncology Reseach Institute of the Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and SCT (Director: Prof. Dr. A. Eggert) at the Charité - University Medicine Berlin is a recently founded multidisciplinary research institute. The main focus of all research programs is to improve cure rates of malignant diseases of childhood by combining basic, translational and clinical research. The Henssen laboratory investigates the biology of rare childhood cancers. For this purpose, the group relies on functional genomics (e. g. Henssen A. et al., Nature Genetics 2017) as well as advanced molecular biology approaches (e. g. Henssen A. et al., Science TM 2017).

Description:
We are looking for someone with a background molecular biology, who is interested in cancer biology and computational biology. The successful applicant will lead a German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) project about intra­tumoral heterogeneity and tumor evolution of childhood tumors for which she/he will 1) develop new methods for single-cell sequencing, 2) plan and perform analyses within research projects of our group, 3) support our existing collaborations with other groups.

Your profile:
An ideal candidate is a recent PhD graduate or postdoctoral research scientist in biology, biochemistry, cancer biology, genomics or any other field with proven experience in molecular biology. The candidate should have excellent skills in all standard biochemistry techniques (PCR, immunoblotting, immuno­precipita­tions, etc.) as well as basic programming skills for data analysis preferably in R and in one of the scripting languages such as Perl / Python. Excellent commu­nication and project management skills are essential.

The position is limited until 31.12.2020.
The position can in principle be part-time.