Postdoctoral candidate for the development of synthetic antibodies

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Teaser Text The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) are looking for a: Postdoctoral candidate for the development of synthetic antibodies Are you excited about developing cutting-edge drug modalities within an ambitious and interdisciplinary research team? In this position, you will advance an innovative drug modality at the interface between peptide therapeutics, nanomedicine and therapeutic antibodies. This highly innovative project is financed by the prestigious NWO VICI grant awarded to Prof. Matthias Barz and will be a collaboration between the Barz Lab (https://barzlab.com/) and the Pomplun lab (https://pomplunlab.com/) at Leiden University. What you will do: Project objectives: - Discover and develop high affinity peptide binders for therapeutically relevant receptors - Establish robust peptide discovery workflows in our lab - Develop bioconjugation methodology for conjugating the peptides to defined nanoparticles What you bring: We are looking for a highly motivated scientist with: - A PhD in the field of peptide discovery - Strong background in peptide discovery, ideally display (phage or mRNA) or generative computational design, ide...