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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Key Words: Climatic Exposure Epidemiology Environmental Medicine Public Health Biostatistics Global Health and Medicine
The Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The division conducts multidisciplinary clinical and translational research with stateofthe art equipment and cuttingedge technology for diseases and disorders across the lifespan.
A fullyfunded Postdoctoral Fellow position is available with Dr. Alison Lee at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC. Funding is guaranteed for 2 years with potential for further support. Dr. Lees research leverages an NIHfunded ongoing pregnancy cohort study in Kintampo Ghana (The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study GRAPHS) investigating the impact of perinatal exposures (both chemical and nonchemical) on maternalchild health broadly and the programming of chronic disease risk. Dr. Lees communityengaged and solutionsoriented research focuses on understanding how exposure to air pollution humidheat and precipitation/drought over pregnancy and early childhood program future health. Research studies consider a range of outcomes including growth lung health and cardiovascular health in both mothers and children. Mechanisms examined include a specific focus on epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation noncoding microRNAs and long noncoding RNAs and extracellular vesicle communications. Metabolomics and microbiome are also of interest. The successful postdoc will lead epidemiology and computational investigations of how these highresolution exposures and molecular mechanisms are associated with human health.
Examples of active projects include:
- Early life household air pollution metal composition and cardiovascular health: Evidence from GRAPHS (R01 ES034433
- Child lung development following a cookstove intervention: Evidence from GRAPHS (R01 ES026991
- Developing climate cohorts to understand health associations and resilience and susceptibility factors in Ghana (R01 ESS1
Excellent written and oral communication skills and a willingness to work as part of a collaborative team are required. Candidates will be responsible for moving forward several projects assisting with supervision of research coordinators and maintaining active collaborations with other labs and universities.
Team: The fellow will work closely with Dr. Lee and will be part of an interdisciplinary teamof environmental epidemiologists epigeneticists and computational biologists dedicated to environmental health investigations.
Responsibilities
Qualifications: Applicants should possess an M.D. or Ph.D. in Environmental and/or Molecular Epidemiology or alternatively in other relevant disciplines such as Statistics/Biostatistics Computational Biology Machine Learning or Bioinformatics with relevant previous work and interest in environmental health. Strong quantitative skills practical experience working with complex epidemiology data familiarity with the R statistical software packages and excellent oral communication and scientific writing are also necessary. Experience with high dimensional molecular data such as Illumina BeadChip methylation 450K 850K or EPIC) and RNAseq data is strongly preferred.
Principal Investigator: Alison Lee MD MS Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Application:
Interested individuals should send a cover letter curriculum vitae two sample publications and the names/phone numbers of three people who could provide letters of reference by email to Ms. Dionne WinfieldProgram Manager: .
Qualifications
NonBargaining Unit 034 Pulmonary MSH ISM Icahn School of Medicine
Employment Type
Full-Time
