PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Metabolism in Japan

The National Institute of Sports Science (JISS), within the Japan Sport Council’s High-Performance Sports Center, is seeking a contract researcher or postdoctoral-equivalent researcher in training science . The researcher will contribute to research and practical support aimed at improving international athletic performance. The work includes conducting fitness measurements covering morphology and body composition, muscle strength and muscle power, aerobic capacity, and related performance indic...

The National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition in Osaka, Japan, is recruiting one full-time fixed-term Researcher/Postdoctoral-equivalent employee for its Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Nutrition Therapy Laboratory. The successful candidate will conduct clinical nutrition and health sciences research using human calorimeters, biogas mass spectrometry, and the doubly labeled water method. Duties include conducting cohort studies, compiling and analyzing research data, ...

Osaka University’s Research Institute for Microbial Diseases is advertising an open call for a researcher/postdoctoral equivalent position in the Department of Biological Control (Ishitani Laboratory) . The lab studies development, regeneration, aging, lifespan prediction, cell competition, genomics, metabolism, endocrinology, pathophysiology , and related omics analysis using small fish models such as turquoise killifish and zebrafish, together with data science and clinical/bioinformatics coll...

Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is recruiting a Specially Appointed Researcher (postdoc-equivalent, fixed-term) in the Hygienic Chemistry Laboratory for Academic Year 2027. The position is centered on research aimed at developing preventive and therapeutic methods for metabolic syndrome . Main topics include: functional analysis and applied research on receptors and related factors that are therapeutic targets for atherosclerotic diseases ; elucid...

RIKEN is recruiting a Researcher / Postdoctoral Fellow equivalent for the Nutritional Response Research Team at the Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The project focuses on nutrition, intestinal bacteria, fruit fly models, marmosets, lifespan, metabolism, genetics, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry . The team studies how nutrients and gut microbes affect physiological functions and the universal mechanisms underlying aging and healthy lifespan. Position typ...