Postdoctoral Fellow (Ref. PD / 25 / 14)

Overview

Organisation / Company IRB Barcelona

Research Field Biological sciences

Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2)

Positions Postdoc Positions

Country Spain

Application Deadline 1 Oct 2025 - 00 : 00 (Europe / Madrid)

Type of Contract Temporary

Job Status Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

IRB Barcelona is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to join an exciting ongoing project aimed at understanding the systemic metabolic influence that metastatic cells in breast cancer exert over the patient, and how this impacts metastatic progression and response to current therapies. Although the project is carried out in a basic research laboratory, it also has a very strong clinical perspective. Hence, it benefits from the close collaboration with clinicians and clinical oncologists working at the Oncology department of the Vall D’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona (through consortia and collaborative grants), to ensure the medical relevance of the project. Ultimately, the project aims at identifying novel systemic metabolic nodes that when modulated would reduce metastatic aggressiveness while boosting the medical benefit of therapies.

The Stem Cell and Cancer group is an internationally renowned laboratory headed by Salvador Aznar Benitah with important contributions in the past 15 years towards our understanding of the local and systemic regulation of adult stem cells in healthy tissue, the daily systemic coordination of different tissues to ensure a healthy physiology, and how and why these are deregulated during ageing and cancer.

Key responsibilities

To join a vibrant, international, and collaborative group by contributing conceptually and by working at the lab.

To join a project developed by a multidisciplinary group of basic researchers, clinicians and mathematicians that jointly work in developing the project.

To co-write papers and contribute to applying for competitive funding.

To tutor laboratory assistants, Masters students, and PhD students associated to the project.

You have

Candidate must hold a PhD degree

Experience in animal handling and animal experimentation is a must. Candidates that do not fulfill this pre-requisite please abstain from applying.

Background in molecular biology, different OMICS (transcriptomics, epigenetics, metabolomics and proteomics) and cell culture will be highly considered when selecting the candidate.

Background in computational analysis of the data will be highly considered when selecting the candidate.

Highly independent, motivated, and collaborative person.

Good organizational and communication skills.

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