Postdoctoral Research Fellow The Anahtar Laboratory
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Boston, MA - USA
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Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
The salary range for this position is $70000-$71750.The Anahtar Laboratory in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking a highly motivated creative and collaborative postdoctoral research fellow to join our team. Our lab combines machine learning genomics and experimental microbiology to address the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance with a particular focus on discovering new antibiotic candidates and developing next-generation diagnostics for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections.
The hired candidate will focus on machine learning-guided antibiotic discovery against pathogens of urgent clinical concern. We have developed and deployed deep learning models to identify structurally novel antibacterial hits against bacteria with a focus on Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We have also applied generative AI approaches to design entirely new antibiotic scaffolds that explore uncharted regions of chemical space. We validate our computational discoveries through rigorous experimental follow-up including MIC testing across multidrug-resistant clinical isolates mechanism of action studies and in vivo mouse infection models.
Our lab sits at the intersection of basic research and clinical translation. Our work is directly informed by the resistant organisms diagnostic gaps and treatment failures we encounter clinically. We collaborate closely with engineers clinicians biologists and chemists across MGH Harvard Medical School the Broad Institute and MIT.
Located in Boston Massachusetts General Hospital is a Harvard Medical School-affiliated academic medical center at the forefront of biomedical research and patient care. We are committed to building an inclusive diverse and equitable lab environment.
Qualifications
Recent graduates with a background in microbiology chemistry computer science and/or immunology a history of academic productivity and excellent references are encouraged to apply.
Applicants are asked to send (1) their CV (2) a cover letter describing their background research interests and goals for their post-doctoral time and (3) a PDF of a paper they have written to Melis Anahtar ().
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