Postdoc Opportunities in Cancer Research

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow in machine learning, computer vision, image analysis, and computational pathology. The position is based in Baltimore, United States, within the Department of Dermatology. The fellow will develop and apply computational approaches to digital pathology and cancer research, including supervised and deep learning for whole-slide image analysis, tumor and tissue segmentation, classification, spatial analysi...

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for translational cancer research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine. The scholar will join Dr. Liying Zhang’s research group, which investigates molecular biomarkers and develops clinically relevant molecular assays to improve cancer patient outcomes. Key research areas include DNA damage response pathways, DNA repair and homologous recombination, liqu...

Leiden University is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral candidate in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology to advance a drug discovery campaign against the synthetic lethality target EXO1. The project is a collaboration between the Pomplun Lab and Sylvie Noordermeer’s group at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), based in Leiden, Netherlands. The successful researcher will develop scaffold proposals for covalent and non-covalent inhibitors, optimize novel and existing compound series for...

The University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Scholar for the Theranostics Laboratory in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology. The multi-year NIH T32 postdoctoral training position focuses on cancer theranostics, PET imaging, and targeted radioligand therapy. The laboratory develops novel PET probes for managing widely metastatic cancers, including imaging agents that may detect therapy resistance in tumor lesions. It also develop...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Immunotherapy for a full-time, fixed-term appointment at the Camperdown Campus in Australia, working with Professor Cameron Turtle. The successful researcher will conduct independent and collaborative research supporting the School’s research agenda, with a focus on immunotherapy, T-cell immunology, CAR T-cell therapy, and transcription-factor analysis in CAR T cells. The role includes developing an independent research pro...

Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division of Molecular Medicine, is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a fixed-term research position in biomedicine and health , within the field of fundamental medical sciences . The project is titled “Exploring the unique properties of the mitochondrial NME6 protein” and the appointment is for one position, lasting until 29 December 2027 or until the end of the project. The post is based at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, and is described as a full-...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in a translational tumor immunology laboratory within the Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology. The project investigates how the host immune system contributes to pancreatic cancer development and metastatic progression. The research will examine cancer-induced suppression of innate and adaptive anti-tumor responses, with particular emphasis on tumor-draining lymph nodes as drivers of lo...

A postdoctoral position is being opened at the Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford, in the lab of Felipe Galvez-Cancino. The project focuses on tumour immunology, specifically how to make myeloid cells eat cancer cells, with the goal of developing novel therapeutics and launching a new venture. The role is funded by Oxford Science Enterprises as part of a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career Development Fellowship. The announcement indicates a strong translational research environment w...

Postdoctoral opportunity in Clinical Psychology and Cancer Research at The Ohio State University This fixed-term postdoctoral scholar position is based in the College of Medicine / Office of Health Sciences, Department of Palliative Medicine, at The Ohio State University. The project focuses on clinical interventions for people with cancer, including a combined mHealth-telehealth symptom cluster intervention for people with advanced cancer and a brief telehealth intervention for people with panc...