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Compensation In accordance with NIH guidelines (NIH 0 3-year experience level). Description

Center for Blood Oxygen Transport&Hemostasis (CBOTH)

Post Doc in Pediatrics Department

Post-doctoral position-CBOTH-Buehler laboratory

Salary In accordance with NIH guidelines (NIH 0 3-year experience level)

The University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine s, interdisciplinary Center for Blood Oxygen Transport&Hemostasis includes a team of physicians, biochemists, and engineers and will help answer fundamental, challenging questions related to blood function in the setting of critical illness. These include determining how certain diseases and stress during trauma can influence red blood cell biology and oxygen delivery; discovering how red blood cells interact with the immune and hemostatic systems; finding ways to optimize blood product preparation and transfusion; developing state-of-the-art models and clinical trials to test engineered bio-mimetic blood components that optimize oxygen transport and hemostasis.

We are currently recruiting a postdoctoral fellow. The fellow will assist in research studies to advance knowledge in a training-based setting under the direction of Dr. Paul Buehler, a federally funded pharmacologist and toxicologist with specialization in hematotoxicology. This postdoctoral position will emphasize the assessment and impact of disease, toxins, transfusion, and pharmacological interventions on red blood cell (RBC) physiology/pathophysiology and the concomitant modulation of tissue oxygenation and homeostasis. The position requires an ability to carry out general laboratory techniques (e.g., spectrophotometry, ELISAs, Western blotting, flow cytometry, histopathology, and microscopy). Evaluation of RBC deformability, oxygen equilibrium, preparation for microscopy (light and EM), capability to assess RBC morphological changes consistent with disease states will be taught. Further, a knowledge and/or desire to expand expertise in techniques that evaluate tissue oxygenation and perfusion (e.g., MRI, EPR, PET, Phosphorescence Quenching, Laser Doppler Flowmetry) is critical to this position s goals. The candidate will participate in several exciting translational research projects in the areas of RBC function, tissue oxygenation and hematotoxicology.

Minimum Education: Recent graduate applicants with a PhD or applicants that are expected to graduate from a Bioengineering, Physiology, or related discipline PhD program. The candidate will be expected to possess strong communication and independent writing skills. Interested candidates should email CV and Research Statement to.