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Postdoctoral

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Postdoctoral Fellow – Immunology

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. During this program, you will be provided with an enriching environment to encourage innovation that will contribute to the development of human diseases.

The lab of Bryan Vander Lugt in the Inflammation Research Department at Amgen is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow in the field of immunology to study antigen presentation and secondary signals in peripheral immune tolerance and autoimmune disease.

The focus of the postdoctoral fellow is to explore secondary signals associated with peripheral immune tolerance, including the genetic programming of relevant specialized antigen presenting cells. This position will also include opportunities to probe therapeutic strategies for antigen-specific immunomodulation in autoimmune disease. This position is ideal for those seeking to understand the fundamentals of therapeutic discovery and translational biology while honing their skills as an independent investigator passionate about basic science.

The postdoctoral fellow will be encouraged and expected to develop an independent line of research based on initial studies and to present at scientific conferences and publish in leading journals. The successful candidate will operate in the context of a highly collaborative environment, with ample opportunities to interact with other postdoctoral fellows, scientists, and drug discovery teams and access to state-of-the art technologies and resources including single-cell omics, human genetics and in vitro and in vivo models to study neuro-immune interactions.

The postdoctoral position is for 3 years with the option to extend for an additional year.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dedicated professional we seek is a scientist with these qualifications.

Basic qualifications

• PhD at the time of appointment

Preferred qualifications

• PhD in Immunology, Molecular Biology
• Expertise using in vivo mouse models of inflammation, multi-color flow cytometry, isolation and culture of primary cells, and/or bioinformatics analysis
• Record of independent critical thinking and the ability to design, execute, and interpret experiments, as exemplified by high quality publications
• Expertise in innate immune biology and/or antigen presentation

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

You may visit the Post Doctoral Fellows Career Page for more information and opportunities.

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for a career that defies imagination

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