Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine

About the Role

Step into a hands-on role as a Postdoctoral Associate and help drive groundbreaking discoveries in the Laboratory for Translational Therapeutics. Support the mission to develop new gene and cell therapies for treating cardiovascular disease. This position is at the forefront of science, performing rodent survival surgeries, including myocardial infarction induction to model heart failure and support the development and testing of novel gene and cell-based therapeutic strategies. This role provides occasional supervision and task delegation, potentially including undergraduate student researchers.

Key Responsibilities

• Plans, directs, and conducts research experiments.
• Performs survival surgical procedures on mice and rats, including myocardial infarction (MI) induction and related cardiovascular surgical models.
• Monitors post-operative recovery and animal welfare.
• Maintains accurate animal research records including procedure logs, husbandry documentation, and IACUC-required reporting.
• Performs euthanasia and tissue/sample collection per approved protocols.
• Evaluates and analyzes data.
• Conducts literature searches and summarizes information in an appropriate format for a particular study.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.