Postdoctoral Fellow – Bacterial Diversity and Vaccine Coverage

Job description

Use Your Power for Purpose Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) represents an urgent public health threat, causing severe morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite antibiotic treatments, recurrence remains common due to disruption of the gut microbiota, highlighting a critical need for effective vaccines for primary prevention. Pfizer is committed to advancing vaccine strategies that address this unmet medical need. In this role, you will apply cutting-edge microbiology, genomics, and computational science to better understand bacterial virulence and Pfizer’s vaccine-induced protection, directly supporting efforts to reduce the global burden of CDI. What You Will Achieve: As a Postdoctoral Fellow within Pfizer Vaccines, you will lead an interdisciplinary research project focused on understanding the variability of Clostridioides difficile toxins and its impact on virulence and vaccine-induced breadth of neutralization. You will be trained to operate with increasing scientific independence while collaborating across microbiology, immunology, bioinformatics, and data science disciplines. This work is expected to generate high-impact publications and provide a strong foundation f...