Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
About The Position
Boston College’s Engineering department is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to lead projects in drug delivery and plant-based scaffolds for tissue engineering. The lab develops stimuli-responsive drug carriers for cancer and tissue engineering applications and engineers the degradation of plant-based scaffolds for hard tissue engineering. Research approaches include drug delivery, plant decellularization, tissue engineering, medical imaging using ultrasound and micro-CT, and AI/machine learning. The Fellow will lead project design, coordination, experimental execution, and project direction, and may work with and mentor graduate and undergraduate researchers. Career development support includes conference travel, grant writing, and mentorship from multidisciplinary faculty. This is an onsite, full-time, temporary, one-year appointment at 35 hours per week, renewable for additional years depending on performance and funding. The position is intended to start as soon as possible, with flexibility on the specific start date.
Requirements
- PhD in Biomedical Engineering or a related field.
- Strong research background in drug delivery and tissue engineering.
- Record of high-quality research publications.
- Excellent teamwork, organizational, communication, and mentoring skills.
- Genuine interest in mentoring undergraduate researchers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI/machine learning approaches to drug delivery and tissue engineering.
- Familiarity with decellularized scaffolds and omics techniques, including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and conduct experiments.
- Analyze and interpret data in the context of project goals.
- Maintain reproducible, well-documented experimental protocols and analysis pipelines.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams.
- Contribute to manuscript preparation, conference presentations, proposal development, and publication of high-quality research papers.
- Manage inventory for reagents and consumables.
- Mentor undergraduate, graduate, and other research assistants.
- Lead project design, coordination, experimental execution, and project direction.
Benefits
- Tuition remission for eligible employees.
- Tuition remission for eligible spouses and children.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Low-cost life insurance.
- Eligibility for a university-funded 401(k) and employer-sponsored 403(b) retirement plans.
- Paid holidays annually.
- Sick and vacation pay.
- Support for conference travel.
- Grant-writing support and mentorship from multidisciplinary faculty.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
