Research Fellow - Radiation Oncology

Mayo Clinic•Rochester, MN

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Research Fellow will join a translational cancer biology and radiation research environment focused on mechanisms of treatment response and resistance. The emphasis is on metabolism, stress-response signaling, DNA damage response, and therapeutic vulnerabilities that may be exploited to improve cancer treatment. The position will support laboratory and translational research projects involving radiation biology, metabolic perturbation, drug-radiation combinations, and biomarker-oriented studies using cell-based, molecular, biochemical, and potentially animal-model systems. The candidate should be prepared to work in a collaborative academic laboratory setting with close interaction among basic scientists, physician-scientists, trainees, and technical staff.

Requirements

Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent doctoral degree in a field deemed relevant by the program
Completed no more than one prior postdoctoral fellowship, at Mayo Clinic or elsewhere

Responsibilities

Designing and executing experiments
Maintaining accurate laboratory records
Analyzing and interpreting data
Preparing figures and manuscripts
Contributing to grant and protocol development
Presenting results in lab meetings and scientific forums
Mammalian cell culture
Irradiation experiments
Clonogenic survival assays
Proliferation, viability, and apoptosis/cell-death assays
Drug-treatment and combination studies
Western blotting or related protein-analysis methods
qPCR or other gene-expression assays
Immunofluorescence microscopy
Flow cytometry when needed
Metabolomics- or phosphoproteomics-adjacent sample preparation and interpretation
Basic molecular biology
Data organization and statistical analysis
Preparation of publication-quality figures
In vivo tumor studies (depending on project needs and prior training)
Tissue processing (depending on project needs and prior training)
Immunohistochemistry (depending on project needs and prior training)
Coordination with institutional cores for omics, imaging, pathology, or animal work (depending on project needs and prior training)