About your role
- You will select and process plasma samples for isolation of extracellular vesicles and subsequent lipidomics and proteomics analysis.
- You will perform the targeted and untargeted lipidomics analysis in close collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC core facility.
- You will setup novel biochemical assays for identified candidate biomarkers.
- You will contribute to the integration of the proteomics (OLINK and massaspectrometry), lipidomics and genomics datasets of the included cohort.
- You will be involved in biobanking and ethics approval for biomarker studies.
About youWe are looking for a candidate who has experience with the characterisation of IPSC-derived dopaminergic or cortical neurons.
- You have a recent PhD degree in Biomedical Science, Molecular/Cellular Biology, Neuroscience, or a related field with a keen interest in molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders.
- Programming skills and experience with proteomic or lipidomic analysis is required.
- Experience with data-analysis with R is required;
- You are highly motivated, creative and willing to work with human blood samples and large -omics datasets.
- Within this project most communication will be in English, so fluency in English and excellent communication and organizational skills are essential.
- You are communicative, well organized, independent and willing to supervise PhD and Msc students.
Our offer- A flying start to your career in scientific research.
- Plenty of room for your drive to shape tomorrow's healthcare.
- Working on large-scale and in-house research, with motivated colleagues from all over the world.
- You will be employed by Amsterdam UMC Research BV.
- A contract for 12 months, with the intention to extend for the duration of the project.
- Salary scale 10: € 3.598 tot € 5.669 gross based on full-time employment (depending on education and experience) and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. Calculate your net salary here.
- Holiday hours: 190,4 per year for fulltime and a possibility to save additional hours.
- Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, comprehensible and fairly priced pension.
- For >7 km each way, 100% reimbursement for public transport travel costs and, for private transport, €0.18 per km up to a maximum of 40 km each way.
- Do you prefer walking or cycling? Take advantage of our good bike scheme. Moreover, you will receive a reimbursement of €0.18 per km.
- Watch this video with more information about joining Amsterdam UMC Research BV.
