Postdoctoral Fellow in Lung Immunology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Allen Lab, United States
- Institution
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Allen Lab
- Country
- United States
- Position type
- Postdoc
- Subject area
- Medicine & Health
- Application deadline
- 31 December 2026
- Salary
- Base pay: $62,400.00 - $93,600.00
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, US
- Funding
- Fully funded position
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About this position
Why does aging simultaneously impair host defense while increasing susceptibility to inflammatory disease? How do tissue-resident stromal cells and their memory of prior exposures reshape immune function over the lifespan?
Dr. Nancy Allen invites you to consider this Postdoctoral Scientist opportunity to join her dynamic team!
The Allen lab is a new lab at Cedars-Sinai and is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scientist to join this effort. Our lab studies how the lung parenchyma shapes immune responses, with a particular focus on how aging and other host factors alter these interactions. Building on prior work defining stromal–immune circuits that drive inflammatory T cell responses in the aged lung (Allen et al., Immunity 2026), we aim to further dissect how these interactions maintain tissue homeostasis and contribute to disease.
The Postdoctoral Scientist will lead projects investigating how the lung parenchyma shapes immune function using a combination of in vivo mouse models, genetic perturbation, immune-stromal co-culture and other functional assays, as well as single-cell and spatial genomics.
Applicant Qualifications:
Education:
- Doctorate degree in biomedical sciences, immunology, or other related field (Required).
Experience and Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work collaboratively as well as independently are required.
- Experience working with mouse models is strongly preferred.
- Training in immunology, cell and molecular biology is preferred.
- Experience with flow cytometry is preferred.
- Computational experience and/or familiarity with high-dimensional datasets (e.g., single-cell or spatial genomics) is preferred.
If interested, please send a cover letter and CV to Dr. Nancy Allen at nancy.allen2@cshs.org.
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