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Our mission as research center: Discover personalized medical solutions for environmentally triggered diseases to promote a healthier society in a rapidly changing world.

The Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC) founded and funded by Helmholtz Munich stands for the intelligent fusion of biomedical sciences, engineering and digitization. At HPC, top scientific talents from across the globe work together on the development of novel solutions that make a difference in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Our research group aims to develop and use organoids for diabetes and other metabolic disease research. For this we searching a PhD candidate to rebuild  in vitro cellular and tissue microenvironments for pancreatic and/or adipose tissue. The envisaged tissue technology is applied for revealing cell-cell communication events during the progression of the disease on a organ-on-chip platform.

We are searching for a

PhD candidate - Engineering Pancreatic and/or Adipose Tissue Microenvironments (f/m/x) 101981

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Your mission

  • Establish an organoid culture for exocrine pancreas tissue and/or adipose tissue
  • Establish the analytical workflow to interrogate differentiation patterns of iPSCs into the respective cell lineages
  • Investigate cell-cell communication between pancreatic cells under various drug conditions by imaging
  • You will work in close cooperation with the Helmholtz AI for analysis high throughput imaging data

Your qualifications

  • You hold a master degree in either bioengineering, biology or biochemistry
  •  Very good skills in spoken and written English
  •  You are highly organized, and can work on complex problems at the interface of bioengineering and cell biology
  •  You are willing to work in an international team
  •  You have a proven publication record for operating advanced microscopes
  •  Knowledge of a computer programming language (e.g. python or R) is a plus

What we offer you

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flexible working hours
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30 days annual leave
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on-site health management service
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Munich, with its numerous lakes and its vicinity to the Alps, is considered to be one of the cities with the best quality of life worldwide. With its first-class universities and world-leading research institutions it offers an intellectually stimulating environment.

This position also provides the opportunity for you to build specialist knowledge and collect significant professional experience, both of which will help advance your scientific career.

Remuneration and social benefits are based on the collective wage agreement for public-sector employees at federal level (EG 13 50% TV EntgO Bund). In addition, there is also the possibility of granting an allowance amounting to 15% if the necessary conditions are fulfilled. The position is (initially) limited to three years, but under certain circumstances an extension can be arranged.

To promote diversity, we welcome applications from talented people regardless of gender, cultural background, nationality, ethnicity, sexual identity, physical abilities, religion and age. Qualified applicants with physical disabilities will be given preference.
If you have obtained a university degree abroad, we require further documents from you regarding the recognition of the degree. Please request the recognition as early as possible.

Curious? If you have further questions, simply contact Dr. Matthias Meier, 089 3187-49564, who will be happy to be of assistance.
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Helmholtz Zentrum München
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
Ingolstädter Landstraße 1

85764 Oberschleißheim


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