Post-Doctoral Fellow– Tai Lab

Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre

BC Cancer Research Institute

Vancouver, BC

A leading academic research lab at the Genomic Sciences Centre is seeking a motivated and skilled Post-Doctoral Fellow to join its team This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful research focused on improving healthcare access, efficiency, equity, and evidence generation. The successful candidate will work on a research project that seeks to define the functional role of a protein normally associated with immune cells in colorectal cancer cells.

Advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant clinical problem. These patients have a survival rate less than 20% and the majority of tumors do not respond to conventional therapies. The programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint is normally associated with the immune system but is also intrinsically expressed by some CRC tumours. C...