Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging

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Place Description

Length: 2 years (renewable)

Wage: $55,000, depending on prior expertise, plus Plan C well being advantages. Alternatives can be found to complement wage by aggressive fellowship competitions on the institutional and nationwide stage.

The Division of Cell Biology & Anatomy within the Cumming Faculty of Medication on the College of Calgary is accepting purposes for a Postdoctoral Fellowship Place in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging.

Job Description:

One postdoctoral analysis place within the subject of paediatric musculoskeletal imaging is out there on the College of Calgary by assist of the One Baby Each Baby initiative . The place can be in Dr. Danielle Whittier’s analysis group with joint affiliation between the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Analysis Institute and McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Well being .

This postdoctoral analysis fellow will lead a brand new “musculoskeletal deep phenotyping” cohort research investigating bone development all through childhood and adolescence, with specific give attention to the impression of power and complicated childhood ailments. The challenge is very multidisciplinary, bringing collectively imaging strategies (e.g., EOS, MRI, HR-pQCT), biomechanics, scientific knowledge, and genomics. Participant knowledge assortment will happen primarily by the world-class amenities out there within the Centre for Mobility and Joint Well being [https://mccaig.ucalgary.ca/research/mojo ] that’s geared up with state-of-the-art imaging and biomechanics gear that’s totally devoted to analysis use. The man can be accountable for supporting the event of the research design alongside workforce members of the deep phenotyping program and can oversee core picture acquisition and evaluation associated to the preliminary section of the challenge.

By way of this function, the postdoctoral fellow can be well-positioned to construct an interdisciplinary community by the One Baby Each Baby initiative and can have many alternatives for technical {and professional} improvement, together with mentoring graduate and undergraduate college students, grant writing, and presenting their work at worldwide scientific conferences. Additional, , there can be alternatives to have interaction in impartial analysis inside the context of the broader cohort research.

{Qualifications}:

•  PhD in biomedical engineering, laptop sciences, or associated subject
• A background in medical picture acquisition and picture processing, ideally with familiarity implementing multimodal imaging (e.g., MRI and CT/HR-pQCT)
• Robust programming expertise for data-driven evaluation, ideally in Python and R
• Robust scientific communication expertise and talent to work in a collaborative workforce setting
• Earlier expertise in scientific cohort research and/or paediatric musculoskeletal analysis isn’t required however can be thought of favourably

Functions Particulars:

• candidates ought to submit an software package deal containing the next info:
  • Cowl letter (together with scientific pursuits and profession ambitions)
  • Curriculum Vitae.
  • Contact info for 2-3 skilled references (they won’t be contacted except shortlisted after interviews).
• Your purposes and questions ought to be despatched to [email protected]
• Overview of purposes will start on December 10, 2023, and can proceed till the place is stuffed.  The goal begin date is Could 2024 (negotiable)

Extra Info

To study extra about postdoctoral scholar alternatives on the College of Calgary and all we now have to supply, view our Postdoc Careers web site . For extra details about the Cumming Faculty of Medication go to Careers within the Cumming Faculty of Medication.

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