The Paul Mischel Laboratory has relocated to ChEM-H at Stanford ChEMH. Paul is Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine and Institute Scholar, ChEM-H, Stanford University.

We are now expanding and considering new applications for post-doctoral fellowships. The laboratory studies extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in cancer. Applicants who are intellectually curious and interested in working in a lab that spans from mechanistic discovery to clinical medicine, and who are interested in science that bridges cancer genetics, epigenetics, cellular metabolism, and signal transduction, are encouraged to apply.

Post-doctoral scientists in the lab will conduct cutting-edge research in a protected, interactive, and highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, with access to shared sequencing, imaging, proteomic, metabolomic, and bioinformatic platforms. We actively engage in co-mentoring of trainees at all levels, building close co-mentoring relationships with Howard Chang at Stanford on ecDNA biology, Vineet Bafna at UCSD on computational aspects of ecDNA biology, and Ben Cravatt at TSRI on cancer metabolism.

Qualifications for these positions include Ph.D., M.D., or M.D., Ph.D. degree(s) (or anticipate receiving their degree in the near future) with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience. Candidates with relevant training involving DNA and chromatin biology, genetics, epigenetics, genomics, signal transduction, cancer metabolism, or related fields are particularly encouraged to apply.

Interested applicants should submit the following documents in PDF format to pmischel@stanford.edu:

• A Cover Letter describing your interest in this position
• A CV with education and training background, and a list of publications
• A 2-page Research Statement summarizing your current research and future research interest
• Reference letter(s) including from your current mentor(s), or a list of references

We evaluate every applicant equally. Successful candidates will be invited for a Skype or on-site interview with the PI and will have the opportunity to meet with the current lab members.

Recent trainees from the Mischel lab have gone on to successful independent careers in academic medicine and science (David Nathanson, UCLA, Deliang Guo, OSU, David Akhavan KU, Kenta Masui Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Feng Lui Shanghai, Jiaotong University, Tomoo Matsutani, Chiba University, Kazu Tanaka Kobe University, Shiro Ikegami Chiba University, Akio Iwanami, Keio University, Koji Yoshimoto, Chair of Neurosurgery, Kagoshima University, Sihan Wu, UT Southwestern Children's Research Institute, Mathieu Bakhoum, Yale University).

Recent trainees from the Mischel lab have also moved on to exciting Academic and Biotech positions (Jengfu Bi, Assistant Professor, Fudan University, China and Joshua Lange, Scientist, Bondloess Bio Company).