36 faculty science jobs found in Huddinge

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Please join my team of world-leading bioinformaticians working across the globe in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York to Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Tartu University Hospital in Estonian. Our main source of systems genetics analyses is the cardiovascular disease (CVD) STARNET (Stockholm-Tartu Atherosclerosis Reverse Network Engineering Task) study - a high-dimensional, multi-tissue genetics-of-gene/protein-expression database of  >1500 patients with and without CVDs. We study the network biology within and across organs to individual cells to better understand the complex etiologies of CVDs. Your mission You will take on the main responsibility of STARNET data within my lab at Karolinska Institutet and in collaborations within the EU and elsewhere. You will not require to develop new bioinformatic tools but to use state-of-the-art methodologies for QC, normalization, correlation and differential...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? We are located in a modern research hub called NEO at Karolinska Institutet in Huddinge. You will be working in an international and interdisciplinary research environment, where collaborative efforts are encouraged. We always aim for an open and welcoming environment. Together with other research groups, we offer state-of-the art core facilities providing cell sorting techniques, microscopy, sequencing, mouse facilities, and provide access to clinical samples. This position will be supported by the prestigious Swedish Research Council Starting Grant. The appointment will be for two years with a possible extension for up to two additional years. Your mission The failure to regenerate tissue with age is a major health issue. A contributor to this decline is the loss of stem cell function. Despite the essential role of stem cells, it is still unclear how they fail to maintain their functions during aging and...

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Karolinska Institutet (KI) invests in recruitment of leading junior researchers with particularly outstanding scientific merits and future potential. The initiative is in line with Strategy 2030 at KI and is for research within the field of Medical science - including Medicine, Health care and Health. These positions as Assistant Professor with possibility to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer is a part of this investment. The appointments are financed by the Faculty Board at Karolinska Institutet. Your mission The employment as Assistant Professor is time limited for six years with the right to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer. The purpose of the employment as Assistant Professor is to develop research skills as an independent researcher and acquire the scientific and pedagogical qualifications required for eligibility for appointment as Senior Lecturer. The employment has a focus on research but may also...

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? The Dantuma lab at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden has a long-standing interest in the role of protein degradation as therapeutic target in cancer. The goal of this project is to target the ubiquitin-proteasome system and autophagy in cancer with small molecules. Do you want to join us on this challenging journey? We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with experience in testing and characterization of experimental drugs. Your mission The mission of this project is to test the anti-cancer efficacy of novel, in-house developed compounds that inhibit intracellular protein degradation. The efficacy will be studied in cell-based and xenotransplant models. In addition, we would like to better understand the molecular mechanism by which these compounds elicit their anti-cancer activity. More information on...

Do you want to contribute to better health for all? The Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS) conducts world leading research in aging, dementia, epidemiology and care sciences. This research extends from basic molecular and cell levels to clinical research and societal studies. NVS educates almost a third of KI students at basic and advanced levels. The Department has approximately 520 employees and a revenue 2021 of 483 million SEK. It comprises seven divisions, located at Campus Flemingsberg and Campus Solna. Aging Research Center (ARC) (https://ki-su-arc.se), a division within NVS, is located at KI Campus Solna, Stockholm. ARC is a multidisciplinary academic environment, representing medicine (e.g., neurology, epidemiology, psychiatry, geriatrics), psychology (e.g., cognition, structural, functional, and molecular brain imaging), and social gerontology (e.g., sociology, public health, social epidemiology, social work). The center has around 70...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics conducts research in epidemiology and biostatistics across a broad range of areas within biomedical science. The department is among the largest of its type in Europe and has especially strong research profiles in psychiatric, cancer, reproductive, pediatric, pharmaco, genetic, and geriatric epidemiology, eating disorders, precision medicine, and biostatistics. Part of the success of our department is due to our collaborative spirit where one factor is that researchers at the Department share and co-finance common resources (e.g., IT and an applied biostatistics group). The department is situated at campus Solna. Further information can be found at http://ki.se/en/meb We are looking for up to three postdoctoral researchers who will contribute to the unit of cardiorenal epidemiology led by Prof Juan Jesus Carrero...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS) is a Swedish Research Council-funded infrastructure that has been in operation since 2010. Initially comprising two nodes at KI and Umeå University, CBCS was expanded in 2022 with the addition of nodes at Lund, Uppsala, Linköping, and Gothenburg Universities. The Division As an infrastructure for chemical biology at Science for Life Laboratory's Chemical Biology and Genome Engineering platform, CBCS specializes in identifying bioactive small molecules or chemical tools for all fields of life sciences. We offer collaborative services and guidance in assay development, small-molecule screening, and hit to chemical probe optimization. We are also in the process of establishing additional service offerings in small-molecule profiling, including Cell Painting, and screening in primary and complex disease models. To learn more about CBCS, please visit our...

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) is a department with a strong focus on basic science. CMB conducts research and education in cell biology, molecular biology, developmental biology, stem cell biology, cancer and infection biology. CMB is located in Biomedicum, a new interdisciplinary research center designed to concentrate much of the experimental research conducted at Karolinska Institutet Campus Solna under one roof to promote collaboration. Biomedicum houses approximately 1,200 researchers and other personnel and allows expensive equipment to be shared and utilized more effectively. Maria G. Masucci research group Our research aims to elucidate how viral products mimic or hijack key cellular functions in order to promote virus persistence and spread, and to understand how these viral strategies may lead to malignant transformation. We particularly focus on signaling pathways that are regulated...

The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics conducts research in epidemiology and biostatistics in a wide range of areas within biomedical science. The department is among the largest in its field in Europe and has particularly strong research profiles in psychiatric, cancer, reproductive, pediatric, pharmacological, genetic and geriatric epidemiology, eating disorders, precision medicine, and biostatistics. Part of the success of the department is due to our collaborative spirit, where a major contributing factor is that researchers at the department share and co-finance common resources (such as IT and an applied biostatistics group). The department is located on the Solna campus. More information is available at http://ki.se/meb. Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? We are looking for a postdoc who will work with cancer genomics data from randomized clinical trials. The Cancer Genomics team at MEB, which is part of...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research in infection biology and microbiology? The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet in Solna conducts research and education in immunology, infection biology, cell biology and cancer. Our keywords are interdisciplinary, clinically based basic research and national and international cooperation. The research group We search for a postdoctoral researcher that together with Professor Birgitta Henriques Normark, her research group and her collaborators will work on projects in bacteriology and respiratory tract infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies infectious diseases as one of the greatest global health threats. Lower respiratory tract infections are a major cause of death globally. Pneumococci are a major contributor to both morbidity and mortality and being the most common causes of milder respiratory tract infections such as otitis media and...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? We are looking for a motivated postdoc to be part of our research group with a focus on mixture toxicology at the Unit of Biochemical Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM). The position is placed in the research group of Kristian Dreij in a project that aims to determine mutational signatures of environmental complex mixtures to improve the understanding of carcinogenesis. Your mission Experimentally determined mutational signatures have provided important insights into the agents and processes underlying the causes of human cancer. Although humans mainly are exposed to complex mixtures of agents which might contribute to cancer development, this research has so far exclusively focused on single mutagens. The overall objective of this project is to determine mutational signatures induced by environmental complex mixtures in human cells, thereby increasing the understanding of the mechanisms and...

Do you want to contribute to the understanding of non-standard employment and health? Our research group is a great place to work and were awarded the “KI Work Environment and Health Award 2021”. We offer a dynamic, supportive and open research climate, where you are encouraged to think freely and explore your own ideas. This is the right place for you who want to grow from postdoc to PI. Your mission Constant changes in the global economy and new technology combined with a general weakening of trade unions and labour law have created the conditions for a variety of non-standard employment arrangements such as gig, platform, freelancing etc. There are significant research challenges to evaluating the consequences of these employment arrangements that our research program aims to address. You will work in an international consortium of top researchers from Sweden, Belgium, USA, Canada, Spain and Chile. We have collected quantitative and qualitative data...

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? The institution for microbiology, tumor- and cell biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet performs research and teaching within immunology, infection biology, cellular biology, and cancer. The Center for Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR) was started in January 2016 as a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The center builds on a deep understanding of translational microbiome research and has established a broad technical, biological, clinical and epidemiological platform for studying complex microbiological communities in well-defined human materials. CTMR aims to better understand the contribution of the human microbiome to physiology and pathophysiology with the goal to open opportunities for development of novel therapies in the area of gastroenterology, reproductive health and neonatology. Your mission As a postdoc in...

Do you want to contribute to improving people's health? At the Department of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, research and teaching is conducted on various aspects of sickness absence, health, work and life situation. The overall aim of the research group MENTE is to bring together research related to psychiatric epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology and insurance medicine in terms of studies related to the etiology, treatment and prognosis of mental illnesses and suicidal behaviour. We offer an engaging research environment where you have the opportunity to contribute to high-quality research. Your role We are looking for a research assistant who will work in several research projects within the research group, with a focus on psychiatric epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology and migration research. The employment includes participating in, and under supervision, planning and implementing projects in these areas. The work...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? Karolinska Institute aims to be a pioneering university. As part of this ambition, in 2022 it created the KI Research Incubator (KIRI), a dynamic environment for top junior researchers, with the aim to strengthen innovative and interdisciplinary collaborations and promote ground-breaking research through its KIRI postdoctoral programme. This postdoctoral position is funded through one of the first selected KIRI interdisciplinary projects “ Connecting biological scales – atomic-level interpretation genetic variants in rare diseases”, a collaboration between KIRI fellows Prof. Laura Orellana, who leads the “Protein Dynamics and Mutation” molecular modelling group, and Prof. Giedre Grigelioniene, PI of skeletal dysplasia research team in Clinical Genetics group focused on the identification of new genetic variants associated with rare skeletal malformation syndromes. Your mission...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes (SRP Diabetes) at Karolinska Institutet is funding a prestigious fellowship programme for postdoctoral research fellows. The Programme is focused on research in diabetes and its comorbidities. With this postdoctoral programme SRP Diabetes aims to support the next generation of exceptional young scientists within the diabetes area, including both experimental and clinical research. As part of this programme,   we are now looking to recruit 4 outstanding postdoctoral research fellows.  Full details on each project and contact information to the PIs can be found at: http://ki.se/en/srp-diabetes/postdoctoral-fellowships Based at Karolinska Institutet, fellows will undertake a cutting-edge research project in a competitive lab and be part of the SRP Diabetes dynamic research environment where several events will be held throughout the year such as high-profile...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The research group of Professor Johan Hartman at the Oncology-Pathology department performs clinical and translational studies for breast cancer, with a special focus on precision medicine. The aim is to predict better individual patients' unique drug sensitivity, as well as to understand the role of tumor heterogeneity and tumor-stromal interactions in breast cancer disease progression. We have a well-established research platform and organization using a multitude of pathology, genetic, and transcriptomic methods in a concerted effort to identify key factors that lead to resistance to current treatment regimens for breast cancer, as well as to identify novel biomarkers for the development of new diagnostic tools. The successful candidate will have access to our unique patient datasets and is expected to perform top-level breast cancer studies together with our collaborators at both KI, KTH, and Science for Life...

Do you want to contribute to improving people's health? In this position, you get a unique opportunity to work together with other psychologists, teachers and researchers at Karolinska Institutet's psychology program. We offer an engaging and stimulating environment with a focus on evidence-based pedagogy and high-quality research at an internationally high level. Your role The main tasks for the position consist of supervising students in semesters 9 and 10 within the framework of a course with psychological treatment work on the psychology program. The course is designed so that the students perform psychological treatment at various clinics in the region. The position involves coordination with the various receptions where the students are placed. Planning and coordination takes place together with the examiner, director of studies and those responsible for the course. In addition to the supervision assignment, the employment entails...

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Division The newly started Ketzef laboratory, closely affiliated to the Silberberg laboratory at the Department of Neuroscience, has an open position for a postdoctoral fellow. We are searching for talented and enthusiastic postdocs interested in studying the neural networks of the basal ganglia underlying sensorimotor functions using electrophysiological, optical, and molecular methods. Duties The successful candidate should show a high level of responsibility and independency, be able to collaborate with others in a team, and possess good English communication skills. Applicants should have a strong neuroscience background with documented experience in electrophysiology. Experience in surgery, animal behavior, computer programming, and manuscript writing, are highly advantageous. The project will involve  in vivo patch-clamp recordings, optogenetics, and imaging in the mouse basal ganglia. Entry...

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Health Sciences and Society, Department of Clinical Geriatrics At the Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society (NVS), world-leading research is conducted in aging, dementia, epidemiology and care science. The research ranges from basic research at the molecular and cellular level to clinical studies and research at the societal level. At NVS, approximately one third of KI's students complete their education at undergraduate and advanced level. The institution with approximately 500 employees and a turnover of 518 million in 2022, consists of seven departments and is located on Campus Flemingsberg and Campus Solna. The department for clinical geriatrics, with over 100 employees and affiliated researchers, is located both in Neo Campus Flemingsberg and in the Q-house in Solna. We conduct both research with a focus on cognitive impairment, dementia and other age-related diseases as well as...