PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Cell Biology in Japan

Osaka University’s Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC) is recruiting one full-time Specially Appointed Research Fellow for its Advanced Postdoctoral Program. This is a postdoctoral opportunity for promising early-career researchers working in immunology, cell biology, bioinformatics or bioimaging. The appointment is based at Osaka University’s Suita Campus in Suita, Osaka, Japan. Researchers will have access to IFReC’s shared facilities, including advanced single-cell analyzers, and oppo...

RIKEN’s Research Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research is recruiting one Researcher, Special Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow, or Research Associate for the Physical Biology Research Team in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The fixed-term position is available from April 1, 2027 or by consultation and will study fundamental principles governing cells and multicellular populations. The team combines mathematical science and life science to investigate order formation in living systems, including cellular pola...

Tokyo Medical University's Department of Immunological Regulation at the Institute of Medical Science is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher or research assistant for immunology and regenerative medicine research. The project focuses on developing New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to predict and evaluate respiratory allergies, vitiligo, and immunotoxicity caused by chemical substances, cosmetics, nanoparticles, and antibody drugs. Research will use single- and co-culture systems based on human ...

Yamagata University Faculty of Science is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a project on organelle contact sites and organelle membrane dynamics using yeast cells and mammalian cultured cells . The research involves cell biology , molecular biology , genetics , and functional biochemistry , including imaging analysis and biochemical analysis of proteins and lipids. This is a fixed-term research position at the Faculty of Science, Yamagata University in Japan. Applicants must hold a PhD or...

RIKEN is recruiting a Researcher / Postdoctoral-level staff member for the Chromosome Segregation Research Team at the Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research . The project focuses on chromosome segregation in oocytes, eggs, fertilized eggs, and early embryos , including segregation errors associated with aging . The research combines cell biology , molecular biology , developmental biology , live imaging, cell engineering, microscopy, and synthetic-biology-inspired approaches. The position supp...

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine is recruiting a Specially Appointed Researcher / Researcher-Postdoc equivalent in the Department of Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine . The position is centered on regenerative medicine , stem cell biology , developmental biology , molecular biology , cardiovascular medicine , and biomedical engineering . The research environment includes work on human pluripotent stem cells (ES/iPS cells), organoid culture, cell-surface antigen measurement and im...

Kanazawa University’s Nano Life Science Institute (NanoLSI) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in nanobioscience and nanometrology . The position is centered on developing a combined system integrating AFM (atomic force microscopy) and SICM (scanning ion conduction microscopy) to observe local structures within cells and sample the observed structures. The institute is a world-class research center under Japan’s WPI program and works across nanometrology , life science , supramolecular chem...

Postdoctoral Researcher position at Nagoya University (Graduate School of Science / Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, ITbM) in the Kinoshita Laboratory , working on plant physiology and stomatal control. The project is funded by JST’s ASPIRE program and focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which plants sense environmental signals such as light , CO2 , and drought to regulate stomatal opening and closing, growth, and stress tolerance. Research themes include analysis of compounds affec...

Open call for a postdoctoral researcher at the Nanomedical Innovation Center of the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Foundation in Kanagawa, Japan . The project is part of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Academic Transformation Areas (B) (R8-10), Project A01, “Construction of a Molecular Basis for the Implementation of Intracellular Shuttles.” The research aims to clarify the molecular structure, properties, and functions needed for intracellular shuttles and to establish molecular des...