**Job Description**

**Applicants must be U.S. citizens, or permanent residents. Individuals with temporary or student visas are not eligible to apply.**

Principal Investigator, Neil Bhowmick, PhD, is looking for a T32 Research Fellow to join the team!

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of happiness, passion, and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and its just one of the many reasons why we rank as one of the top hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

**Are you ready to be a part of breakthrough research?**

Funded by the National Cancer Institute (T32CA240172), the multidisciplinary training program in prostate cancer at Cedars-Sinai Cancer provides exceptionally motivated postdoctoral fellows with scientific knowledge, research training, and professional skills of translational prostate cancer research. The goal of the program is to provide innovative curriculum and mentored research that prepares an elite group of highly motivated fellows to become successful, independent researchers in cancer biology.

As a Research Fellow you will work independently and in close cooperation/consultation with the Principal Investigator and other Research Scientist(s). Daily tasks will include complex and routine laboratory procedures throughout the training period in prostate cancer research. May develop, adapt, and implement new research techniques and protocols, and responsible for the analysis and interpretation of data. May aid in the preparation of grant proposals. Will conduct design experiment assembling data for publications and presentations as author or co-author.

To learn more about Dr. Bhowmick's work, please visit: https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/research/labs/bhowmick.html

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities:**

Designs and performs experiments in cooperation with the mentor. Will keep appropriate experimental records and documentation and analyze results with mentor.

Encouraged to submit for own fellowship funding but is not responsible for generating grant funds.

Responsible for compiling figures and text for the submission of publications and presentations as author or co-author.

May develop, adapt, and implement new research techniques and protocols.

Performs routine and complex laboratory procedures throughout training period.

Operates and maintains equipment and instruments.

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**Qualifications**

**Experience/Education we are looking for:**

U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent resident status is required

Doctorate (MD, PhD, VMD, or DDS) in an area directly related to field of research specialization or related.

Experience working with mice.

Works independently on research projects developed by a mentor (typically the PI) in the field of cancer biology.

Acquires thorough technical and theoretical knowledge of research project and objectives during one to three (1-3) year post-doctoral appointment.

Experience as a first author in one or more publications on impactful body of work.

Demonstrated aptitude to perform experimental protocols and procedures, including detailed data collection, and analysis and operation and maintenance of specialized equipment.

Knowledge of safety standards and maintenance of specialized equipment.

Ability to function in a team environment and use interpersonal skills to communicate effectively.

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**About Us**

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

**About the Team**

Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.

**Req ID** : HRC0738305E

**Working Title** : T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (U.S. Citizenship/Residency) - Prostate Cancer

**Department** : Research - Hematology and Cellular Therapy

**Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

**Job Category** : Academic / Research

**Job Specialty** : Postdoctoral Scholar

**Overtime Status** : EXEMPT

**Primary Shift** : Day

**Shift Duration** : 8 hour

**Base Pay** : $32.00 - $45.00

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.