Postdoc Opportunities in Cancer Research in Japan

Researcher / Assistant Professor / Instructor-level opening in dementia care research and elderly care at the Dementia Care Research and Training Center, Sendai (Tohoku Welfare Association / Social Welfare Corporation), located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan . The center promotes research that improves the quality of dementia care and the quality of life of people living with dementia. The successful candidate will contribute to research planning, data collection and analysis, report writing, confe...

Tohoku University’s Department of Clinical Disorders, Graduate School of Medicine is recruiting an academic researcher / postdoctoral equivalent for research in neuroscience, neurology, physiology , and rehabilitation medicine . The lab focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of neuromuscular diseases and developing treatments for conditions such as sarcopenia , muscle diseases , and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) . The work spans basic to translational research, including cell culture , ...

Job opening at Nagoya University for a Lecturer / Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine . The research focus is DNA damage response (DDR) , DNA repair , molecular genetics , genomics , and disease mechanisms linked to DDR dysfunction, including cancer , aging , and genetic disorders . The lab is especially interested in transcription-coupled DNA repair and in disease model mice with DNA repair abnormalities. Successful ...

RIKEN’s Brain Science Institute / Mathematical Neuroscience Research Team is recruiting a Researcher or Postdoctoral Fellow for work in computational neuroscience , theoretical neuroscience , mathematical models , neural networks , learning theory , and brain science . The position is based at the RIKEN Wako Campus, Saitama Prefecture, Japan , and is part of the CREST BioDX project “Elucidating Sleep Brain Function Driven by Multi-Layered Neural Activity Data” . The successful candidate will col...

RIKEN’s Research Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Japan is recruiting a Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow for the Complex Climate Science Research Team . The position focuses on weather and climate modeling , computational science , high-performance computing (HPC) , GPU computing , and generative AI for scientific software development. The project aims to build a new specification-driven research and development platform for scientific and technical computing. The work includes designin...

Japan Keirin School is recruiting a Researcher / postdoc-equivalent contract position in Sports Science to support a new science team focused on improving performance in cycling competitions. The role is based at Japan Keirin School in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan , with a mix of on-site work for measurements and meetings and remote work for data analysis and document preparation. Research and duties include identifying training challenges, planning data collection and analysis, analyzin...

Recruitment of a fixed-term Research Fellow / Senior Research Officer at the Disaster Prevention and Public Health Resilience Research Center , National Institute of Public Health (Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan). This is a postdoctoral-equivalent full-time research position focused on public health , disaster prevention , health crises , medical sociology , and health informatics . The role includes public health activities and administrative support related to large-scale disasters and h...

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Polymer Biomaterials for Medical Applications at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. The position is in the Polymer and Biomaterials Research Center, Biopolymer Group , with research focused on the development of polymer biomaterials for medical applications. The project includes polymer synthesis , gel fabrication , property evaluation, cell culture tests , and animal experiments , with applications in regenerative m...

Juntendo University Sportology Center in Tokyo is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join ongoing cohort and health research projects focused on healthy lifespan, skeletal muscle quality and function, and women’s health. The research themes include: prevention of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis; prevention of cognitive impairment and neurological diseases; prevention of musculoskeletal disorders; and research on women’s health issues, including underweight/malnutrition sy...