Umeå University - with its 33,000 students and over 4,000 employees - is an organisation in constant change and development. Umeå University conducts groundbreaking research within several areas - several in which we are among the best in the world - within others regarded as the leaders in Sweden. We are one of Sweden’s largest providers of education and offer a broad and ­attractive range of courses and programmes. Our campus constitutes an inspiring environment for everyone that studies and works here. We wish to co-operate with companies and organisations throughout the Umeå region and all over the world.

A Post-doctoral position
at Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology

A full-time position is available for two (2) years in a research group working with prostate cancer with the long-term goals to improve prognostication and therapy of advanced disease. The research focus of this position is identification of protein biomarkers for metastatic prostate cancer in tumor tissue and plasma samples. Primary cultures of prostate tumor cells will be established and specific studies of tumor cell exosomes will be performed.

The candidate must have (main qualifications):
A PhD degree, not more than three (3) years old
Documented experience of in vitro cell culturing and protein analysis

Furthermore, the successful candidate should have the capacity to work independently in the laboratory as well as the ability to collaborate with others. Experience of primary cell culture establishments, qualitative and quantitative protein analysis, immunoflow techniques, and in vivo experiments in rodents is desirable. The successful candidate should also be proficient in written and spoken English and have good organizational skills.

For further information about this open position contact:
Pernilla Wikström, +46 (0)90 785 3752, pernilla.wikstrom@medbio.umu.se

Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65, SEKO, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.

Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format.

Your complete application, marked with reference number 315-990-09, should be sent to jobb@umu.se or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive November 16, 2009 at the latest.

We look forward to receiving your application!