Postdoc: AI-Driven Drug Delivery & Plant-Based Scaffolds

Boston College; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition remission for Employees

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Holidays and Vacation

Job summary

Boston College invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Engineering Department. The role focuses on drug delivery and plant-based scaffolds for tissue engineering, leading project design, coordination, and execution.

You will mentor students and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, with opportunities for travel, grant writing, and professional development. This is a full-time, onsite, one-year appointment renewable based on performance and funding.

Qualifications

• PhD in Biomedical Engineering or a related field.
• Strong research background in drug delivery and tissue engineering.
• Record of high-quality research publications.
• Excellent teamwork, organizational, communication, and mentoring skills, including genuine interest in mentoring undergraduate researchers.
• Candidates with experience in AI/machine learning approaches to drug delivery and tissue engineering are especially encouraged to apply.
• Familiarity with decellularized scaffolds and omics techniques is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Planning, designing, and conducting experiments.
• Analyzing and interpreting data in the context of project goals.
• Maintaining reproducible, well-documented experimental protocols and analysis pipelines.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams.
• Contributing to manuscript preparation and conference presentations.
• Managing inventory for reagents and consumables.
• Mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and other research assistants.

Skills

Research leadership

Drug delivery

Tissue engineering

Mentoring

AI/ML experience

Education

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Tools

Transcriptomics

Proteomics

Metabolomics

Job description

Boston College invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Engineering Department. The role focuses on drug delivery and plant-based scaffolds for tissue engineering, leading project design, coordination, and execution.

You will mentor students and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, with opportunities for travel, grant writing, and professional development. This is a full-time, onsite, one-year appointment renewable based on performance and funding.