Postdoc in Stem Cell Transplantation for Spinal Cord Repair

Karolinska Institutet; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 357,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Karolinska Institutet invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholarship in stem cell transplantation and spinal cord injury, hosted by the Li Research Group in the Division of Neurogeriatrics. The project explores how stem and progenitor cells respond to injury and how their survival, differentiation, and integration can be enhanced for regeneration.

Located at BioClinicum, Solna Campus, the program provides an interdisciplinary environment linking experimental biology, computational

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with stem cell biology and spinal cord injury models.
• Experience with stem or progenitor cell culture and neural differentiation or transplantation.
• Experience with in vivo experimentation and histology/molecular analyses.
• Interest in combining transplantation, perturbation, and molecular profiling for CNS repair.
• Experience with modern molecular/cellular techniques relevant to neural research.
• Ability to plan, troubleshoot, analyze data, and contribute to writing.
• Good English communication in an interdisciplinary setting.
• Experience with CRISPR or gene perturbation and omics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish stem cell transplantation experiments in spinal cord injury models.
• Perform stem/progenitor cell culture and differentiation.
• Apply genetic or molecular perturbation approaches to study CNS repair.
• Generate and interpret single-cell and spatial omics data with collaborators.
• Conduct complementary molecular, histological, imaging, and functional analyses.
• Contribute to experimental design, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation.

Skills

Stem cell biology

Spinal cord injury

Single-cell omics

Spatial omics

CRISPR / gene perturbation

Organoid models

Molecular biology techniques

Data analysis

Experimental design

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Doctoral degree in neuroscience or stem cell biology

Tools

Single-cell sequencing platforms

Spatial omics platforms

Organoid culture systems

In vivo animal models

Job description

Karolinska Institutet invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholarship in stem cell transplantation and spinal cord injury, hosted by the Li Research Group in the Division of Neurogeriatrics. The project explores how stem and progenitor cells respond to injury and how their survival, differentiation, and integration can be enhanced for regeneration.

Located at BioClinicum, Solna Campus, the program provides an interdisciplinary environment linking experimental biology, computational