Postdoctoral Fellow/Trainee

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Postdoctoral Fellow/Trainee ( Job Number: 39577 ) Description: University of Colorado Anschutz: Department: School of Medicine/Dept of Medicine Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow/Trainee: Position #00846485 – Requisition #39577: Job Summary: This position reports directly to Drs Wierman and Kiseljak-Vassiliades in the Division of Endocrinology, and is responsible for the development of hypotheses, experimental design, and data analysis to define the role of key pathways underlying pituitary tumorigenesis and adrenal cancer growth and response to therapy. The position will also be involved in direct training and supervision of undergraduate students in the lab. Key Responsibilities: Investigate the mechanism underlying pituitary tumorigenesis and adrenocortical carcinogenesis with focus on developmental therapeutics. In vitro approaches include mammalian cell culture, molecular biology, microscopy, immunohistochemistry, functional genomics, proteomics, high throughput drug screening, and genome-wide sequencing. In vivo approaches include patient derived xenograft mouse models, xenograft models, humanized mouse models and subcutaneous mouse models. Perform experimental design, quantitati...