Postdoctoral Fellows

The BioTranslation Lab is a translational research environment that develops materials and delivery technologies to address unmet medical needs. The lab is based at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and affiliated with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The lab's work is driven by a simple principle: rigorous science should ultimately create meaningful new possibilities for patients.

What You Will Do

As a postdoctoral fellow, you will lead ambitious projects, shape their direction, and connect materials and delivery science with disease biology and clinically relevant questions. You will also collaborate with a diverse, international team and connect with scientific and clinical communities throughout Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham, and the Broad Institute.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We welcome candidates who have completed, or are nearing completion of, a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and who combine strong technical foundations with curiosity, creativity, and scientific rigor. Successful fellows take ownership of their work, bring initiative and an entrepreneurial mindset to project development, communicate clearly, and enjoy collaborating across disciplines.

Requirements

• Ph.D. or equivalent in chemistry, bioengineering, chemical engineering, materials science, polymer science, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field
• Experience in one or more of the following: polymer synthesis and characterization, controlled-release formulations or long-acting drug-delivery systems, release kinetics, degradation, mechanical or rheological characterization, and relationships to in vivo performance, scalable and manufacturable formulation or fabrication processes, in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic evaluation
• Ph.D. or equivalent in bioengineering, chemical engineering, molecular biology, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field
• Experience in one or more of the following: non-viral delivery of nucleic acids, including mRNA, siRNA, or CRISPR/Cas components, nanoparticle formulation and physicochemical characterization, targeting, biodistribution, or pharmacokinetic studies, in vitro and in vivo efficacy studies, including expression, knockdown, or editing readouts
• Ph.D. or equivalent in immunology, microbiology, molecular or cellular biology, or a related field
• Experience in one or more of the following: immune responses to biomaterials, nanoparticles, or delivery platforms, experimental models of immunomodulation or neuroinflammation, flow cytometry, cytokine profiling, single-cell approaches, or related immunological assays, mechanistic studies that connect immune responses with therapeutic performance

Benefits

• Career development
• Support for publications, conference presentations, independent fellowships, and the transition to your next career stage
• Opportunities for increasing scientific independence