Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. Anna Pluciennik, at Thomas Jefferson University to study DNA repair systems in the context of neurodegeneration and cancer.

https://www.jefferson.edu/university/jmc/departments/biochemistry/faculty-staff/faculty/pluciennik.html

We are looking for a cryo-EM expert to study protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions in the DNA repair pathways involved in genome instability in Huntington’s disease. The laboratory is located in newly renovated space in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The laboratory has an access to a cryo-EM facility at Jefferson equipped with state-of-the-art Glacios 200kV transmission cryo-Electron Microscope equipped with Falcon 4 direct electron detector. In addition, a strong background in molecular biology/biochemistry is required, as is attention to detail and a strong work ethic.

If interested, please contact:

Anna Pluciennik, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

email: anna.pluciennik@jefferson.edu