07 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of British Columbia, Canada

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Microtechnologies for Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The group is focused on developing enabling micro- and nanotechnologies for healthcare and life-sciences with a strong view on translation of these technologies to the industry and clinics.

The candidate will have the primary responsibility of design, fabrication, characterization, testing and assembly of microdevices to integrate into platforms for high-resolution profiling of biological samples. This work will be carried out in the common access Advanced Nanofabrication Facility, the Life Sciences Institute, and the Vancouver Prostate Center. Additionally, the candidate will have the unique opportunity to participate in setting-up the BioDevice Foundry at the School of Biomedical Engineering.

The candidate will be embedded in the School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC, which is UBCs first inter-faculty department with research converging from both the faculties of medicine and applied sciences. The candidate will thus have access to a network of researchers at affiliated hospitals and industrial partners across BC, with training and opportunities across this ecosystem.

The Canadian group in the DarkLight collaboration has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher to join us in a search for new bosons in the mass range from 10 to 20 MeV using the TRIUMF/ARIEL e-linac. The successful applicant will join a small international collaboration and be based at TRIUMF in Vancouver, BC. The brief and intense schedule for the DarkLight experiment means that this position provides a unique opportunity for a young postdoctoral researcher to participate in a particle physics experiment from the design stages right through data taking to a final result during their time at TRIUMF.

Funded by the Government of Canada New Frontiers in Research Funds (NFRF), Mend the Gap project (https://mendthegap.ubc.ca/) addresses the challenge of repairing the spinal cord after injury. To overcome the challenges ahead, an international and highly interdisciplinary team was set up, with researchers from several fields (neuroscience, surgery, materials science, engineering) organized under several research themes. The two open positions are related to building an ultrasound system for biomedical imaging, using newly developed polymer CMUT (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer) arrays. The system will be used for the real-time imaging of biomaterial injection into the spinal cord, to help for its repair.

The Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI) analyses the legal obligations of corporate directors, pension fiduciaries, and asset managers to manage and report on climate-related financial risks and opportunities. It publishes guidance on effective climate governance, working closely with legal and accounting professionals and policymakers. Our mission is to enable Canadian directors, executives, policymakers, and regulators to confidently and swiftly lead Canada through a net-zero emissions transition with effective climate governance.

CCLI is supported financially by family foundations, and is led by its Principal Co-Investigators who include professors at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

The Department of Orthopaedics at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hippy Lab at BC Children’s Hospital to facilitate research in the area of pediatric orthopaedic surgery.

This position is located within a health-care facility. Therefore, this position requires successful verification of full vaccination against Covid-19 provided prior to the start date, as required by the provincial health mandate.

The Hippy Lab is a global leader in the field of pediatric hip and trauma research, with the goal of improving hip health, mobility and quality of life for all children in British Columbia, nationally and globally through research, clinical care, education and advocacy. To that end, the Hippy Lab has established the Hippy Global Registry Program, with multiple established prospective registries: the Global Hip Dysplasia Registry (GHDR), the SCFE Longitudinal International Prospective (SLIP) Registry, and the Global Pediatric Orthopaedic Implant Safety & Efficacy Registry (Global POISE). We are aiming to expand the portfolio of the Hippy Global Registry Program to include two additional registries: The Rare Hip Conditions Registry (RHCR) and Global PedORTHO (a musculoskeletal trauma registry).

Wound healing is one of the foundations of medicine. Our laboratory is focussed on understanding mechanisms of tissue injury, inflammation and repair. We are particularly interested in how environmental (eg. smoking) and other factors (aging, diabetes, genetics) impair normal healing and /or contribute to chronic disease, identification/validation of novel therapeutic targets and the development and commercialization of de novo therapeutics. The post-doctoral fellow (PDF) will take on a leadership role and be actively involved in the translational research effort pertaining to establishing wound healing models to identify and assess novel therapeutic approaches ultilizing in vitro and invivo modelling approaches, transcriptomics, proteomics and other methods. The job is highly translational and well suited for PDFs seeking greater involvement in all steps in taking basic bench research discoveries through to clinical application and potentially commercialization. Our research program spans from basic biochemistry/molecular biology through to target validation, proof-of-concept in animal and human models with a strong connection to industry. The PDF will be responsible for designing and implementing studies to further elucidate mechanisms of disease through the use of in vitro and in vivo models. Dr. Granville’s laboratory (www.granzymes.com) utilizes a variety of disease models related to aging, autoimmunity, injury, inflammation and impaired healing as they pertain to cardiovascular, pulmonary, skin, musculoskeletal, and neuroinflammatory disorders.