Postdoctoral Fellow in Pediatrics

Position Summary

NIH supported Postdoctoral Fellow posi4ons are available in Dr. Lei Yang’s Laboratory at the Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine. IU School of Medicine is the largest medical school in the United State. Salary compensa4on is at NIH scale. The successful candidate will also have access to the IU retirement benefit package. We are interested in exploring the novel functional dimensions of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in regulating human cardiovascular development, metabolism, function and disease. These new lncRNA functions include the broad interactions of lncRNAs with various proteins, lipids and microRNAs etc. Research platforms in the laboratory include human embryonic stem (ES) cells, patient-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, mouse genetic models, and animal models of cardiomyopathy, heart failure and vascular disease. During past years, the lab has published in Nature Cell Biology, Developmental Cell, Development, Genome Biology, Nature Communications, Nature, etc. Additional information of the lab could be obtained from the website: hSps://medicine. iu.edu/faculty-labs/yang-lei IUSM is committed to being a welcoming campus community and we seek candidates whose research, teaching, and community engagement efforts contribute to robust learning and working environments for all students, staff, and faculty. We invite individuals who will join us in our mission to improve health equity and well-being for all throughout the state of Indiana.