Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatric Rheumatology Research

Cincinnati Children's Office of Academic Affairs and Career Development; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cincinnati Children’s is seeking a motivated postdoctoral candidate for a fellowship in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis research and patient care within the Rheumatology Department. The role emphasizes developing future leaders and innovators, with responsibilities spanning experimental design, data analysis, and scientific communication.

This full-time position involves collaboration with faculty, regular meetings, and opportunities for grant writing and mentoring.

Qualifications

• PhD/MD or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and record laboratory experiments and analyze data, which may affect decisions regarding future patient care.
• Research and improve current methods and evaluate innovative techniques. protocol and assay accuracy by conducting regular quality and reproducibility checks.
• Discuss relevant insights about experimental results with Faculty and provide useful recommendations and analysis.
• Present research at laboratory meetings, journal clubs, seminars, and meetings.
• Draft, write, and edit scientific reports, papers, journal articles, abstracts, and grants.
• Progressively increasing responsibilities with mentorship of research staff and fiscal administration
• Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature, and seminars. Be an active participant in the process through intellectual discussions with PI and other faculty, trainees and research staff.
• Attend required Cincinnati Children’s training sessions and ensure regulatory compliance with all institutional policies and procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Experimental design

Scientific writing

Presentation skills

Education

PhD/MD or equivalent

Job description

Cincinnati Children’s is seeking a motivated postdoctoral candidate for a fellowship in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis research and patient care within the Rheumatology Department. The role emphasizes developing future leaders and innovators, with responsibilities spanning experimental design, data analysis, and scientific communication.

This full-time position involves collaboration with faculty, regular meetings, and opportunities for grant writing and mentoring.