29 faculty medicine other medicine jobs found in Cambridge, MA

Position Description     The HaSET (“happiness” in Amharic”) Maternal and Child Health Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow with an interest in reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology and maternal and child health. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will have opportunities to work on large-scale datasets, including cohort and surveillance data from low- and middle-income countries. The successful candidate will develop and extend skills in statistical analysis, create analytical frameworks, develop protocols, monitor data quality, and collaborate on manuscripts and grant proposals. The fellow will focus on answering questions related to pregnancy and child health outcomes and causes of morbidity and mortality. Research may include developing risk stratification models, causal inference methods, and analyzing large...

Description     The Nutrition and Global Health Program in the Department of Global Health and Population, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with an interest in global health, perinatal epidemiology, and maternal/child/adolescent health.    The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will contribute to ongoing clinical trials and prospective cohort studies in partnership with institutions in Africa and Asia and lead statistical analyses and write peer-reviewed publications using data from completed research projects. This position provides the opportunity to develop and extend skills in statistical analysis, manuscript writing, and grant writing. All activities will be conducted in close collaboration with investigators and study personnel in Boston and partners in Africa and Asia.    Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Contribute to field operations for...

Position Description     The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School (http://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Founded in 2015, the Department consists of 16 core faculty members working in diverse areas of biomedical informatics and offers unparalleled opportunities for collaborative research with investigators in basic science departments at Harvard as well as with clinicians at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. The Department is interested in candidates engaged in bioinformatics and computational genomics research. As analysis of genomic and other high-throughput data has become an essential component of modern biology, we seek candidates who are interested in developing new modeling approaches and computational techniques for such analysis and applying them to important problems in basic biology and medicine. Areas of interest include functional genomics,...

Position Description     The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position at the multidisciplinary intersection of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning(ML) and clinical decision making. Qualified candidates would be joining a growing department with several leaders in clinical AI, bioinformatics and population health (see https://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu/faculty). DBMI faculty lead or participate in multiple multidisciplinary research and teaching efforts such as the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics program, the Division of Health Sciences and Technology of Harvard and MIT (https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/health-sciences-technology), the Data Science Initiative of Harvard University (https://datascience.harvard.edu/) and the Harvard Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.harvard.edu/kempner-institute/). Basic Qualifications  ...

Position Description     The Davis Lab of Plant Biodiversity at Harvard University is seeking an exceptional postdoctoral researcher to work with us on forecasting species distributions of medicinal plants and assessing global seed-bank coverage of species under investigation.  The Davis Lab of Plant Biodiversity explores questions in plant evolution and ecology using a variety of cutting-edge methods. Current and past research has shed light on the genetic and genomic basis of plant parasitism, illuminated systematic and biogeographic trends in widespread temperate and tropical clades, and characterized plant phenological and community-level changes in the Anthropocene. We actively explore and use natural history collections and herbaria, and are constantly seeking to develop new approaches to unlock these data and apply them in novel ways. We believe that diversity, collaboration, and mutual respect are essential to any scientific endeavor. Job Description:...

Position Description     The Davis Lab of Plant Biodiversity at Harvard University is seeking an exceptional postdoctoral researcher to work with us on the sequencing, identification, and analysis of comparative genomic data from medicinal plants. The Davis Lab of Plant Biodiversity explores questions in plant evolution and ecology using a variety of cutting-edge methods. Current and past research has shed light on the genetic and genomic basis of plant parasitism, illuminated systematic and biogeographic trends in widespread temperate and tropical clades, and characterized plant phenological and community-level changes in the Anthropocene. We actively explore and use natural history collections and herbaria, and are constantly seeking to develop new approaches to unlock these data and apply them in novel ways. We believe that diversity, collaboration, and mutual respect are essential to any scientific endeavor. Job Description We are seeking a highly motivated and...

Position Description     The Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek candidates performing creative basic and/or translational research in any area of innate or adaptive immunology.    Our department faculty have diverse backgrounds and interests in understanding basic mechanisms of immunity and their roles in health and disease. Areas of research include autoimmunity and tolerance, cancer immunology, infection and immunity, mucosal immunology, neuroimmunology, and systems immunology.    We offer a supportive and inclusive community. Our vibrant research environment is highly interactive, and we encourage and foster collaboration, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We are committed to the success of our faculty, and we provide engaged mentoring and significant resources, including a highly competitive start-up package, substantial administrative and...

Position Description     Multi-omic studies towards the identification of robust biomarkers for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The aims of this Army-funded study are identifying, validating and characterizing blood-based diagnostic biomarkers for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Harvard is part of a collaborative consortium of researchers that includes NYU, UCSF, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, the Institute for Systems Biology, and the Army Center for Environmental Health Research. At Harvard, the team continues to work on (i) optimizing the panel of heterogeneous (multi-omics) markers for diagnosing PTSD, (ii) identifying dysregulated subnetworks that are related to glucocorticoid receptor regulation and Fc epsilon R1 signaling in PTSD based on changes in DNA methylation patterns, (iii) constructing, validating and characterizing polygenic risk profiles for PTSD, and (iv) identifying mechanisms underlying metabolic dysfunction in PTSD with a network based...

Position Description     The Haber Lab in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard University has openings for highly motivated postdocs to develop and apply novel computational approaches for next generation sequencing data analysis, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, and related approaches. Our research group uses single-cell genomics to study immunity at mucosal sites, with a focus on the lungs and particularly mechanisms of asthma. Past work has focused on discovering new cell types in the lungs (Nature, 2018), single-cell genomics of the small intestine (Nature, 2017), and using single-cell methods to describe how the mucosal immune system regulates epithelial stem cells (Cell, 2018). The successful candidate(s) will join an interdisciplinary team spanning several institutions, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard....

Position Description     The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Curriculum Fellows Program (CFP) is seeking an innovative, collaborative early-career science educator to act as the Curriculum Fellow (CF) in Developmental and Regenerative Biology (DRB). The CFP is a postdoctoral service and training program focused on curriculum development, teaching, and educational programming in the biological and biomedical sciences. The CF is part of a larger cohort, and receives mentorship and career advising to support their development as an educator and to help them succeed in a variety of education-focused careers. More detailed information about the Curriculum Fellows Program, the role of a CF, and the outcomes of former fellows can be found in the 2022 CF cohort announcement available on our website (https://curriculumfellows.hms.harvard.edu). The DRB CF will provide broad curricular development, academic support, and educational programming in the DRB graduate program...

Position Description     The Harvard Medical School Curriculum Fellows Program (HMS CFP) welcomes applications for a Curriculum Fellow (CF) in Biomedical Informatics. The CFP is a postdoctoral service and training program focused on curriculum development, teaching, and educational programming in the biological and biomedical sciences. Curriculum Fellows are part of a larger cohort and work closely with members of the Harvard faculty and administration to develop, deploy, and evaluate evidence-based graduate training. Fellows also receive mentorship and career advising to support their development as educators and help them succeed in a variety of education-focused careers. More detailed information about the Curriculum Fellows Program, the role of a CF, and the outcomes of former fellows can be found in the 2022 CF cohort announcement available on our website (https://curriculumfellows.hms.harvard.edu). The primary role of the CF in Biomedical Informatics will be to...

Position Description     Harvard University’s Assistive Technology Initiative has an immediate opening for an entrepreneurial research fellow to coordinate and lead a project at the intersection of wearable sensing, controls, neurophysiology, movement science, and clinical rehabilitation. The position will involve work underway at the Harvard Biodesign Lab (https://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu), Harvard Biorobotics Lab (http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/), and major Boston-area hospitals with a focus on human sensation quantification (electrical stimulation, haptics) used to assess recovery from neurological impairments and disease progression. The research fellow will work as part of a highly multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in engineering, biomechanics, rehabilitation science, neurology, and clinical practice. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of new technology, evaluate the technology with human participants in state-of-the-art...

Position Description     OVERVIEW The Department of Molecular Metabolism and the Harvard Chan Research Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CAP-CVD) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invite applications for the position of Research Scientist. We seek outstanding candidates with experience in using physiological, cell biological, and biochemical approaches to address questions in lipid metabolism as they relate to cardiovascular physiology and disease. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES The Research Scientist will be responsible for a wide-range of duties. They will design and conduct experiments related to lipid metabolism and its role in cardiovascular physiology and disease development. This includes in particular murine models of disease, but also biochemical and other assays. Responsibilities also include developing research grant proposals addressing the role of lipid metabolism in CVD, in collaboration with Drs. Farese and Walther...

Position Description     The Center for Computational Biomedicine (CCB) is a newly established center within the Harvard Medical School. The CCB mission is to leverage data and computation to transform research and improve health. Areas of application include imaging, genetics, genomics, clinical data, claims and other data sources. Recent advances in imaging technology have greatly increased achievable spatial and temporal resolution, resulting in large scale data sets with many opportunities for advanced analytics and machine learning to help streamline the process and decrease the analysis time. Analyzing and interpreting these data present substantial methodological challenges including efficient storage and access, computing, segmentation, identification of particular cellular structures, single molecules etc. With regards to imaging, the CCBs goal is to collaborate with HMS faculty to develop new analysis platforms that enable quantitative, reproducible and...

Position Description     The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health seeks to recruit a faculty member in the field of mindfulness and public health. This is an open rank search for a tenure-ladder position, with the academic rank to be determined in accordance with the successful candidate’s experience and productivity. The department and the school are committed to mentoring early career investigators. We are dedicated to upholding the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring and promotion processes, and hope to hire someone who can help promote these values through research, teaching, and mentoring across culturally diverse backgrounds. Situated within a vibrant school of public health, the Nutrition Department has an exceptional and diverse portfolio of research in public health nutrition and nutrition epidemiology and trains doctoral and postdoctoral students in each of these areas. The faculty are actively...

Title Lecturer on the History of Science School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area History of Science Position Description The Department of the History of Science at Harvard University seeks applications for a one-year lectureship in the history of science, medicine and/or technology starting in the fall of 2023. Candidates will be expected to teach a mix of lecture and discussion-based undergraduate courses,and to be an active presence in the department community. The field of focus is open, and the position will be full-time. Strong preference for candidates with a previous successful track record in developing compelling undergraduate curricula. The position is for one year with a start date of July 1, 2023, and an end date of June 30, 2024. Keywords:* faculty, instructor Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA, Northeast, New England Basic Qualifications Doctorate in history of science or closely...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Position Description The Grad Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites creative and motivated researchers to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship position in our computational team. The successful candidate will use and develop pathogen genomics and bioinformatics tools in collaboration with our wet lab molecular microbiological and experimental genetics team to work on large microbial genomics datasets. This includes addressing the pathogenesis, biology, and evolution of the important human pathogen  Neisseria gonorrhoeae , the cause of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea and one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide, and work on datasets from other pathogens that incorporates questions about within-host and population-level dynamics. Multiple...

Title Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biostatistics School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Biostatistics Position Description A Postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  The successful candidate will work closely with Dr. Rui Wang and Dr. Michael Hughes. The position involves the development, implementation, and evaluation of statistical methods for both observational and randomized studies in medicine and health care, with a focus on applications related to HIV and other infectious diseases. Specific research areas include the design and analysis of individual and cluster randomized trials, longitudinal data modeling and survival analysis, and methods for hospital profiling. S/he will have opportunities for both methodological research and close collaboration with medical investigators. ...

Position Description     About HHI The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is a university-wide academic and research center in humanitarian crisis and leadership. HHI is based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Global Health and Population and is affiliated with the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). As an Inter-Faculty Initiative, HHI collaborates closely with all Harvard Schools and Harvard Teaching Hospitals and is the primary humanitarian outreach arm of Harvard University. The mission of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is to create new knowledge and advance evidence-based leadership in disasters and humanitarian crisis. HHI was founded in 2005, currently operates 20 projects and consists of over 65 staff, faculty, affiliated experts, students, fellows, and collaborators. HHI’s aim is to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in pressing humanitarian issues, advance the science and...

Position Description     The Lewis Lab is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in one or more of the following areas: stem cell biology, organoid differentiation, bioprinting, or tissue engineering. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers supported under three new awards from NIH, DoD, and Wellcome Leap. The goals of these projects are to develop vascularized cerebral, cardiac, and renal organoids and to use the building blocks to fabricate functional organ-specific tissues at scale. Basic Qualifications     Candidates must have a Doctorate degree in Materials Science, Bioengineering, or Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, by the time the appointment begins. Additional Qualifications     Priority will be given to candidates with experience in two or more of these areas: stem cell biology, organoid differentiation, bioprinting, and tissue engineering. Successful candidates are also expected to have a...