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Assistant Project Scientist Position in Digestive Diseases - Meriwether Lab 2025-2026

University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States, California, Los Angeles
410 Westwood Plaza (Show on map)
Jun 25, 2025
Position overview Salary range: See Table 37-B [https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2024-25/july-2024-scales/t37-b.pdf]. A reasonable estimate for this position is $76,700 - $89,000. Application Window Open date: June 25, 2025 Next review date: Friday, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Friday, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date. Position description The Meriwether Lab in the Division of Digestive Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA seeks an advanced researcher for the Assistant Project Scientist position with extensive experience in lipid metabolism, high throughput screening approaches and cellular oxidative stress at the intersection of inflammatory disease and cancer/gut microbiome science. The candidate must have completed a minimum of 4 years of postdoctoral research and have additional research experience in the field of multi-omics for therapeutic target discovery with a deep understanding of bioinformatics and how these apply to global/high-throughput study of lipid metabolism. The candidate is expected to creatively initiate a program that studies distinct mechanisms of lipid metabolism and oxidative stress into the regulation of inflammatory disease and implications in cancer/immunity initiation and its progression. The candidate must be experienced with methods including and not limited to LC-MS based lipidomics and metabolomics, multi-omics data integration, high throughput screening of small molecules, and single cell/imaging approaches to the study of lipid metabolism. Experience in research pertaining to nutritional interventions to modulate inflammation and immunity will be considered a plus. The candidate must also be able to develop bioinformatic tools and workflows to analyze and interpret said data and use these to generate new ideas and hypotheses to move the project/field forward. The project will focus on identifying new mechanisms leading to inflammatory/immune regulation driven by lipid oxidation and metabolism in IBD, gut dysbiosis, and cancer. A Ph.D. is required. The shared values of the DGSOM are expressed in the Cultural North Star, which was developed by members of our community and affirms our unswerving commitment to doing what's right, making things better, and being kind. These are the standards to which we hold ourselves, and one another. Please read more about this important DGSOM program at https://medschool.ucla.edu/cultural-north-star Qualifications Basic qualifications A Ph.D. is required. Additional qualifications The candidate must have completed a minimum of 4 years of postdoctoral research. Application Requirements Document requirements Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of the state of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education. 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