Postdoc Opportunities in Chemical Biology in Canada

The Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine is advertising an ongoing recruitment for postdoctoral scholars across the 2026-27 academic year. The opening is intended for recent Ph.D. graduates working in chemistry or closely related areas, with opportunities spanning several major research directions. Research areas explicitly highlighted include inorganic and organometallic chemistry, organic chemistry and chemical biology, physical/atmospheric/analytical chemistry, poly...

The Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine is offering postdoctoral scholar positions that may become available throughout the year. The role places the scholar in a research environment within the School of Medicine, where they will conduct advanced research under the general oversight of a faculty mentor. This appointment is designed as a full-time period of advanced academic preparation and research training. The postdoctoral scholar will contribute to proj...

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Irvine is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join Dr. Han Li in the Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology laboratory. The project sits at the intersection of computational protein design, enzyme engineering, and experimental biocatalysis, with a strong emphasis on building integrated workflows that connect in silico design with high-throughput validation. The research program focuses on integrated co...

The Wachter Lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in protein biochemistry and structural biology . The lab investigates molecular mechanisms underlying transcriptional regulation in cancer , combining structural biology, protein biochemistry, and chemical biology to identify new therapeutic opportunities. Research interests include cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), protein complex reconstitution, cancer biology, and mo...

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...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Yang Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Center for Pharmacogenomics. The project investigates the genetic and molecular basis of variability in treatment response in childhood cancer. Research integrates pharmacogenomics, multi-omics and computational analyses, experimental functional genomics, and precision medicine, with emph...

The Lee Lab, led by Assistant Professor Seungjae Lee at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, invites applications for postdoctoral researcher positions available from March 2027 onward. The lab studies the interface between RNA biology and cellular metabolism , including how metabolites, metabolic enzymes, and metabolic states influence RNA structure, processing, translation, localization, and function. Research directions include small RNA pathways such a...

The University of Hong Kong invites applications for several Postdoctoral Fellow positions in peptide chemistry and bioconjugation within the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, and the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. The research focuses on designing, synthesizing, and chemically modifying peptide therapeutics and related biomolecules, including peptide conjugates, cyclic peptides, and next-generation peptide-based drug modalities. Fellows will operate and...

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in nucleic acid computing and molecular programming, based in the Department of Genetics and associated with Dr Gamze Gürsoy's interdisciplinary laboratory. This primarily experimental, wet-lab role focuses on synthetic biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biomolecular engineering, and genome engineering. The postholder will develop programmable nucleic-acid systems that sense defined hu...