Postdoc Opportunities in Medical Science in United States

Boston University’s Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine is recruiting a Postdoctoral Associate for the Erdogan Lab in the Department of Translational Dental Medicine. Based at the Boston University Medical Campus, the NIH-funded laboratory investigates how neuro-immune responses and interactions shape pain, infection, and tissue repair in barrier tissues of the oral cavity. The research program operates at the interface of neurobiology, immunology, microbiology, oral biology, and translat...

The Yarrow Lab is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in spinal cord injury (SCI) and aging research . The fellow will contribute to the upcoming multisite TRT-SCI clinical trial and other VA- and DoD-funded studies focused on SCI. The fellowship is based through the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System and the Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), within the Advanced Fellowship in Aging program. Research may be conducted at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Car...

The DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program offers recent and future doctoral degree recipients an opportunity to conduct research supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences mission. Postdoctoral fellows develop a proposed research project in collaboration with a suitable hosting facility and mentor. Research may address structural materials science and technology, plasma-facing components, plasma-material interactions, advancing confinem...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, is seeking postdoctoral fellows for its NIH-sponsored Childhood Hematological Malignancies Training Program. The program addresses childhood blood cancers, which remain a major cause of cancer-related death despite substantial improvements in survival. Postdoctoral researchers will investigate the genetic basis of childhood hematological malignancies and help translate genomic discoveries into experimental models and therapeutic advanc...

Northeastern University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nutritional Immunology to join the Okeke Lab in the Department of Biology in Boston. Led by Dr. Emeka Okeke, the lab investigates how nutrition and bioactive molecules influence immune function, inflammation, and host–microbiome interactions. The postdoctoral researcher will lead an interdisciplinary project focused on the anti-inflammatory properties of a bioactive, dietary-derived peptide. The research will define how the ...

Northeastern University’s BarabásiLab, led by Professor Albert-László Barabási, is seeking Postdoctoral Research Associates for interdisciplinary research in network science and its applications to nutrition, biology, medicine, machine learning, art, and science. The research spans food and nutrition networks, human diseases, disease progression, biomarker discovery, drug repurposing, network medicine, complex disease mechanisms, systems pharmacology, bioinformatics, and network science/statisti...

The Feres Lab in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work at the intersection of applied data science, machine learning, microbiology, and oral health. The fellow will join a multidisciplinary research environment involving dentists, microbiologists, and data scientists. The work spans Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Core for Computational Biomedicine in the Department of Biomedical I...

Northeastern University's Institute for Experiential AI is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct applied research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and major societal and scientific challenges. The appointment may focus on Responsible AI , Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval , AI and Health , or AI and Life Sciences . The Responsible AI track addresses the design, development, governance, evaluation, monitoring, and auditing of AI systems, including iss...

The Salivary Disorders Unit at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a 2–5-year project on Sjögren’s disease and salivary gland dysfunction. The central research question is which antigens are recognized by T cells in Sjögren’s disease-affected salivary glands and how that recognition contributes to the loss of glandular function. The program connects a Sjögren’s disease resear...