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The Position:
Postdoctoral Fellows are appointed for up to three years and will work closely with a leading Research Scientist or Engineer in their respective field. They carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO with the possibility of novel and important scientific outcomes. They present the findings in appropriate publications and at conferences.
This research projects aims to develop a novel defined and biocompatible material that can functionally interface with the complex multiple cell layers of the human retina. The Postdoctoral Fellow will explore novel polymers and biopolymers as candidate materials for fabricating a mimic for the retinal Bruch’s membrane. A critical step in mimicking a natural membrane will require an understanding of the key biological interactions with retinal cells and the underlying blood supply, and identifying key molecules required to engage specifically and functionally with these components. This will form a targeted approach in bioengineering a membrane with, not only the appropriate physical and chemical properties, but with the molecular complexities required to integrate with its biological environment. This position will require the development of novel tissue engineering strategies to enable a complex and biologically functional in vitro model that is representative of the human retina and compatible with platform therapeutic discovery applications.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will join a multidisciplinary team at CSIRO including polymer scientists, biomaterials engineers and cell biologists within CSIRO’s Biomedical Manufacturing and Advanced Fibres & Chemical Industries [led by Veronica Glattauer (Primary supervisor), Yen Truong and Carmel O’Brien]. The project will also be undertaken in collaboration with eye disease and tissue engineering researchers at the Centre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne (Alice Pebay), Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Eye Institute (Damian Harkin).
Your duties will include:
Location: Clayton, Victoria
Salary: $82k to $93k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of up to 3 years
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To be successful you will have:
Before applying please view the full position details and selection criteria here: Position Details
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How to Apply: Please provide enough information relevant to the selection criteria for this position to enable the assessment panel to determine your suitability, and upload one document containing your CV/resume and cover letter.
Applications Close: 10:59pm AEDT, 31 October 2018.