Job Opportunities in Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Available positions
1. Professor, Associated Professor （1-2）
2. Assistant Professor （2）
3. Post-doctoral
4. Research assistant
5. Research technical person
Research Direction
1. Immune mechanism analysis of inflammatory diseases (New pathway exploration, Cell/Molecular Biology, Immunological )
2. Vaccinology (Antigen development, Adjuvant development, and Antigen delivery system research)
3. Nanomedicine (Treatment of tumors or chronic diseases based on nanomedicine)
4. Nanobiology and Toxicology (Exploration of Biological and Immunological properties and potential mechanisms induced by Nanomaterials）
Description
Professor, Associated Professor
JD and requirements:
1. Background in immunology, vaccinology and nanomedicine. Have experience in project application, already funded by NSFC project or above.
2. Have some high-level papers in related areas; Having industry transformation experience will be better.
3. Able to carry out the project and apply for the project independently; Able to assist the laboratory director in lab management and projects implementation.
4. Good command of English, proficient in professional and daily English communication.
Salary: According to the standard of SIAT
Assistant professor
JD and requirements:
1. Background in immunology, Molecular Biology, Vaccinology and Nanomedicine. Have experience in project application, already funded by NSFC younger fund or above will be better.
2. Have the ability to carry out the projects independently, assist PI in projects implementation and the team management, publish high-level papers and assist PI to apply for projects.
3. Good command of English, proficient in professional and daily English communication.
Salary: negotiable
Post-doctoral
JD and requirements:
1. Have the ability to carry out the projects, able to assist PI in projects implementation and publish high-level papers.
2. Already obtained PhD degree or will obtain in the near future.
3. Good command of English reading and writing. Good daily English communication will be preferred.
4. Background as following is preferred:
1) Cell/Molecular Biology: Master molecular biology and cell biology techniques, with animal experiment experience is preferred.
2) Immunology: basic knowledge of immunology, familiar with flow cytometry and other related operations.
3) Nanomaterials and nanomedicine: with expertise in nanomaterials synthesis, characterization, and training in nanobiology.
Salary and other benefits:
1. Two years employment. Comprehensive annual salary of 300,000-400,000 yuan (including the company's five social insurances and one fund). Those who pass the opening and mid-term examination will receive an annual living subsidy of 60,000 yuan (120,000 yuan in total for two years) from the Shenzhen Municipal government.
2. Five insurance and one fund. Basic social insurance such as medical insurance, old-age insurance, work-related injury insurance and housing accumulation fund for full-time employees.
3. Reward: The same as the regular employees enjoy annual assessment bonus, year-end bonus, etc.
Research assistant
JD and requirements:
1. Conduct scientific research on corresponding topics and publish high-level scientific research papers.
2. Assist to do lab management which could ensure experiment implementation.
3. Participate in international cooperation and academic exchange, and assist to projects implementation and completion.
4. Execute other tasks assigned by the leader.
5. Already obtained master degree or will obtain in the near future.
6. Good daily English communication will be preferred.
7. Have solid professional knowledge in cell biology, molecular biology, nanobiology, nanomedicin and immunology related research fields. Have SCI papers are preferred
8. Have animal disease model establishment, animal operation experience is preferred.
Salary: 8000-12000Yuan with five social insurance and one fund, year-end bonus, paid holidays and other benefits.
Research technical person
JD and requirements:
1. Conduct scientific research on corresponding topics and publish high-level scientific research papers.
2. Assist to do lab management which could ensure experiment implementation.
3. Participate in international cooperation and academic exchange, and assist to projects implementation and completion.
4. Execute other tasks assigned by the leader.
5. Already obtained bachelor degree or will obtain in the near future.
6. Good daily English communication will be preferred.
7. Have solid professional knowledge in cell biology, molecular biology, nanobiology, nanomedicin and immunology related research fields. Have SCI papers are preferred
8. Have animal disease model establishment, animal operation experience is preferred.
Salary: 7000-10000Yuan with five social insurance and one fund, year-end bonus, paid holidays and other benefits.
Institute Information
The Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) was jointly established by CAS, the Shenzhen municipal government and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in February 2006. SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
Over the past 13 years, SIAT has made significant achievements in human resource development, academic research and technology commercialization. In 2019, It has staff over 1900(including 16 IEEE fellows, 3 CAS academicians, 6 National Outstanding Young Scientists), as well as more than 1450 graduate students. More than 100 foreign distinguished professors are invited as visiting/chief scientists part-time working in SIAT.Oriented to be the industrial research institute, SIAT makes efforts to the scientific and technological transforming and has incubated 958 companies (263 shareholding) in the fields of emerging industries such as low-cost healthcare, service robots, electric vehicles, cloud computing, digital cities, nano-medicine, new energy and new materials.
Introduction of Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines
Characteristics: Multidisciplinary research for the treatment of inflammatory and infectious diseases
The aim of the Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines (LIV) is to develop novel immunotherapeutic drugs and vaccines against inflammatory and infectious diseases.
This is done by addressing 4 research topics: 1) the immunological mechanisms of inflammatory and infectious diseases, with particular focus on the pathological derangements of innate immunity and inflammation. 2) Vaccine development, by exploiting our knowledge about controlling inflammation for harnessing its powerful capacity to amplify specific protective immunity and immunological memory. Monoclonal antibodies will be used as “passive” vaccines and immunotherapeutic tools. 3) Adjuvants and intelligent nanocarriers, both for vaccines and inflammatory diseases. 4) Immuno-safety assessment, for diagnostic/predictive evaluation of human immune reactivity.
Use of human primary cells in advanced in vitro models, high-content screening, high-throughput technologies, omics and data curation and analysis will form the methodological basis of research. A strong translational effort will be made for transferring the research outputs into new preventive and therapeutic strategies.
Core members
1. Diana Boraschi, PhD, Full professor, Doctoral supervisor, LIV Director.
Academician of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy), Academician of Accademia Dei Fisiocritici, member of the Italian Top Scientists and Top Italian Women Scientists Society. She is currently the director of the LIV of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Winner of "2022 Chinese Government Friendship Award". She is an expert of the 1000 Talents Program for Foreign Experts Affairs of China and a PIFI scholar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has coordinated two EU Commission projects, and participated to other 12 projects, in addition to numerous national and bilateral cooperation projects. She served as the director of the Institute of Protein Biochemistry of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the Head of the Laboratory of Immunology and Inflammation. She has been engaged in the research of innate immunity and inflammation for more than 40 years and is one of the pioneers in the field of IL-1. She has published more than 220 papers in Nature, Science, Nature Immunology, PNAS, JEM, Blood, Science Translational Medicine and other international journals, H-index=64, cited more than 15000 times, written 24 books, owned 8 patents, etc., and won twice the "Federchimica Award", the highest award of Italian scientific translational research. She is strongly dedicated to scientific training worldwide.
Research direction: inflammation, innate immunity and innate memory mechanisms in health and immune-related diseases and aging; development of adjuvant and immunotherapy based on innate memory.
2. Li Yang, PhD, Full professor, Doctoral supervisor, LIV Deputy Director.
Talented researcher awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship, he graduated from Salzburg University in Austria with a PhD degree. He has successively engaged in research on nano immunology and cancer immunology in the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) , the Kansas Nanotechnology Research and Development Center and the University of Colorado in the United States. He has undertaken and participated in a number of EU FP7 research programs, the National Natural Science Foundation of China General and International Cooperation projects, Guangdong Distinguished Young Scholars Fund projects, etc. As the corresponding author, he has published more than 40 papers in international journals, including Nature Nanotechnology (2 papers). He has won the European Union Marie Curie Foundation and the First Prize of Natural Science in Hebei Provice. He is a member of the Italian Society of Immunology and Clinical Immunology and the Chinese Society of Toxicology. He is a reviewer of Science Advances, ACS Nano and other journals.
Research directions: tumor immunotherapy, nano-biology, nano-medicine, macrophages, tumor inflammation.
3. Aldo Tagliabue, PhD, Full Professor, Chief Scientist
A senior scientist of the Italian National Academy of Sciences, the founder of ALTA, the co-founder of vaccine companies Achilles Vaccines and Veterna, the "international visiting scholar of international talents" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and previously served as the director of the Korean International Vaccine Institute and the director of the Lombarddy Region Biomedical Research Foundation. In his more than 40 years of career, he has been engaged in immunology and vaccine research. He has published more than 120 papers in Nature, PNAS, J. Exp. Med., Blood, Vaccine and other scientific journals, has an H-index of 46, with more than 6500 citations, and 11 invention patents. Three of the vaccines he involved for developing have already been available for public and widely used all over the world, which are the Vivotif, an oral vaccine for typhoid fever; the recombinant acellular pertussis vaccine for the treatment of Bordetella pertussis; and the Bexero for treating meningitis B.
Research direction: research and development of human vaccines and vaccine adjuvants, and research of human immunology in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
4. Guofang Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor
She is mainly engaged in the research of nanobiology and nanotoxicology, familiar with nanobiology, nanomedicine, cell biology, genetics, epigenetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, etc., committed to the research of multi-disciplinary interdisciplinary fields, using the advantages of multi-disciplinary research to solve scientific frontier problems. She has published more than 10 SCI papers in related research, such as Nature Nanotechnology, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, WIREs Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology and Environmental Science: Nano. She has undertaken the Youth projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, participated in the key projects of National Natural Science and National Cooperation, general and international cooperation projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, etc
Research direction: nanobiology, nanomedicine
Contact
Please send CV to three email address: gf.zhang@siat.ac.cn/yj.zeng1@siat.ac.cn/j.xu@siat.ac.cn.
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