Postdoc Opportunities in Bioengineering in Japan

ETH Zurich and Novartis Biomedical Research are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for a collaborative project in Basel, Switzerland. The work sits at the interface of academic and industrial research and focuses on neuroimmunology, bioengineering, and therapeutic development. The project will develop and apply advanced human in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier to investigate mechanisms driving disease progression in Multiple Sclerosis. Building on an established multicellular, flow-enable...

The University of Limerick’s Bernal Institute is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in vascular tissue engineering and perfusion bioreactors for the INCENSE-2 research project. Working in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and Department of Chemical Science, the researcher will contribute to a collaboration with Cook Medical, co-funded by the Rinn Pharma & Biopharma Centre. The project aims to create a human, flow-conditioned model of the arterial wall that can be used to test real stents an...

The Yoshihara Laboratory at The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, is recruiting postdoctoral researchers for interdisciplinary projects in endocrinology, metabolism, stem cell biology, animal physiology, and genomics. The laboratory integrates stem cell-derived artificial human organs, cultured cells, genetically modified model mice, physiological analyses, and genomic approaches. Its research investigates ontogeny and metabolic homeostasis while addressi...

Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to join its applied nanotechnology lab in Pittsburgh. The role centers on the development and execution of research projects on multivalent DNA origami nanosensors , combining experimental nanotechnology, molecular design, and quantitative analysis in a multidisciplinary research setting. The successful candidate will work on lab activities related to cloning and/or synthesis of nucleic...

This research contract at the Politecnico di Milano , within the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” and the LaBS group at the Leonardo Campus in Milan , focuses on the design and assessment of a minimally invasive blood pump for supporting the Fontan circulation . The project addresses a major unmet need in the treatment of patients with single-ventricle congenital heart disease: existing ventricular assist devices are not well matched to the physiology of...

Professor Sarah Hedtrich is establishing a dynamic Pharmaceutical Biotechnology research laboratory at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The lab investigates inflammatory and genetic diseases affecting human epithelia and develops therapeutic strategies through interdisciplinary research at the interface of pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical engineering and medicine. The postdoctoral project, Bioengineering Complex Disease Models of Epithelia , will generate, validate and apply human epit...

The Endocrine Oncology Lab at Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to contribute to ambitious, collaborative translational research with potential relevance to patient care. The lab values curiosity, rigor, creativity, persistence, self-motivation, and careful experimental reasoning. Research focuses on the biology and treatment of endocrine cancers. One major area investigates the molecular pathways that govern endocrine cancer initiation and progression, including characteriza...

Politecnico di Milano is recruiting for a research contract in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering within the scientific area of bioengineering. The project, titled “Agentic EEG Interfaces for Screen-Independent Assistive Communication in ALS” , focuses on developing a non-invasive EEG-based communication system for people with ALS who have difficulty speaking, moving, or using eye-tracking tools. The research is centered on imagined speech and on identifying communicat...

This research contract at Politecnico di Milano is based in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) and is embedded in the Horizon Europe BEHOLDER project. The research focuses on developing a simulator of pollutant dispersion in urban environments aimed at improving the personalized estimation of individual exposure . The selected researcher will work on an urban dispersion simulator implemented in Python/Blender , currently based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics ...