Jefferson Health
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Chromatin Regulator and Immune Interaction in Blood Cancers, Lab of Jianping Li
Philadelphia, PA · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- Recent PhD or PhD/MD; no number of years specified.
- Education
- PhD or PhD/MD in molecular biology, T-cell immunology, cancer biology, or a related field.
About the job
Conduct basic and translational research on chromatin regulation and immune interactions in blood cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma initiation, relapse, treatment resistance, and CNS infiltration.
What you'll do
- Investigate chromatin regulator-driven phenotypes and molecular mechanisms in blood cancers.
- Use cell lines, conditional mouse models, and patient-derived xenografts in NIH/NCI-funded research.
- Contribute to research involving targeted therapy development.
What they ask for
- Recent PhD or PhD/MD in molecular biology, T-cell immunology, cancer biology, or a related field.
- Strong interest in at least one listed research area, such as chromatin regulation, cancer epigenetics, stem cell biology, immune interactions, CNS infiltration, or targeted therapy development.
Nice to have
- Experience in molecular cloning, CRISPR editing and screening, multi-omics sequencing analysis, flow cytometry, and sorting.
Tools
CUT&RUN, ChIP-Seq, single-cell RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, Hi-C, proteomics, flow cytometry, CRISPR editing and screening
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