Post Doctoral position in the EIC Pathfinder project GLUCOTYPES in the fiel

at  KU SUND PANUM KBH N

We are offering a post doctoral position at the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics (CCG) with the Wandall Group, commencing from January 1st 2025 or after agreement. The position is fixed term for 3 years and full time (37 working hour in average per week).
The candidate will be part of a EIC Pathfinder project promoting new technological solutions to advance the treatment of diabetes and developing optimized nutrition for healthy living and preclinical organoid models for advancing personalized medicine.
The project GLUCOTYPES is funded from the European Union’s EISMEA - European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency Horizon Europe programme under the grant agreement Nº 101161509.
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic candidate with a strong background in biochemistry, mass spectrometry, cell biology, virology, or immunology for the project.
Glucotypes: Type 2 diabetes, affecting 1 in 10 people and causing over 114,000 deaths annually in Europe, remains a significant public health challenge. Despite extensive research, there is still limited understanding of how the disease develops and how diet influences blood sugar control. In this project you will be part of a team of scientists from five European countries that aims to address this by studying “glucotypes,” or early patterns of blood sugar deviations through an expert look at nutrition, metabolism, the gut microbiome, glycoprofiles, and machine learning. In the sub-program you will be heading, the goal is to uncover molecular signatures based on glycan and glycoproteomic changes linked to these glucotypes, potentially leading to precision nutrition strategies and improved prevention methods. The research will also pave the way for clinical trials to test personalized diets’ effectiveness on cardiometabolic health, offering hope for better diabetes prevention and management.

PROFILE

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic scientist with the following competencies and experience:

Key criteria for the assessment of applicants for the postdoc position :

• You have a Ph.D. in biochemistry, molecular biology, (bio)medicine, biology, immunology, or similar.
• Knowledge and preferable skills in mass spectrometry, glycoprofiling and or glycoproteomics, working with 2D cell culture systems and 3D organoid tissue models.
• Familiarity with mass spectrometry, microscopy, flow cytometry, immunology, cancer biology, and glycobiology is an advantage.
• Knowledge about mass spectrometry, glycobiology, and cell biology is an advantage.

Please refer the Job description for details