Jobs
Postdoctoral research fellow focused on multimodal analyses of biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease
Posted 17 Sep 2024
Employer
Lund University
Location
Lund, Sweden
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren
Contact
Read more details and apply for the position here: https://lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:750081/
Description
This is a unique opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to join the teams at both the research group for Clinical Memory Research at Lund University (Sweden), and the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), Barcelona (Spain). We study the biological processes behind Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. We work with cohorts of patients and cognitively healthy volunteers, who undergo extensive testing with brain imaging, biomarker measurements, and neuropsychological testing, as well as animal and cell biology experiments. The research in Lund is led by Oskar Hansson and the research in Barcelona is led by Marc Suárez-Calvet.
The overarching goal of this project is to increase understanding of AD and improve clinical patient management and clinical trials, by performing analyses of fluid (cerebrospinal fluid and blood) biomarkers in the continuum of Alzheimer’s disease, and their associations with neuroimaging, clinical, cognitive, and genetic data. The work relies on large cohorts managed at Lund University and BBRC. The research will be conducted under the leadership of Hansson and Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren at Lund University, and Suárez-Calvet at BBRC.
Requirements
- Ph.D. degree (or will hold in the following months) in bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational biology, data science, medicine, neuropsychology, neurosciences, or a related field.
- A solid publication record with first-author research publication(s) in peer-reviewed international journals.
- Strong interest in Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and neurodegeneration.
- Strong statistics and data analyses skills.
- Good knowledge of statistical programming in R and/or other statistical packages.
- Excellent communication and writing skills in English.
- Able to work both independently and collaboratively with others.
- A high level of motivation, drive, initiative and enthusiasm.