We are looking for a highly motivated candidate willing to postdoctoral research in our young and dynamic ChemSynBio team at IQS School of Engineering - Ramon Llull University in Barcelona!
Group At ChemSynBio ( ), we harness chemical and synthetic biology to create biotherapeutic and biomedical tools, especially to treat brain diseases and to understand brain transport.
We aim to conduct groundbreaking research and to grow together!
Project Current treatments against brain diseases have very low efficacy due to the incapacity of most drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and target particular cell populations.
We have recently been awarded a highly prestigious grant by the European Research Council to understand transport across the BBB and to develop new strategies to deliver large therapeutics into the brain with unprecedented efficiency and selectivity.
In your project you will be working on engineering proteins in the brain endothelium by combining synthetic biology and bioinformatic approaches for high throughput screening on BBB models .
This project is in collaboration with Prof. David Baker 's laboratory (Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2024).
Tasks Lead the creation of a high-throughput screening platform on BBB models .
Apply bioinformatics and protein engineering to boost the OBGate project.
Closely collaborate with other researchers working on the project and the group.
Contribution to an inspiring atmosphere and engagement in team activities .
Training , student supervision , Preparing scientific publications .
Conditions Two years of funding guaranteed .
Support to apply for additional funding (eg MSCA) with experience as fellow+host.
Training opportunities and attendance to international conferences.
Space for creativity, with mentorship and team support.
Possibility to supervise PhD and MSc students.
Proposed starting date: first half of 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr