Senior Research Associate, Infectious Diseases
Location Type: On-site
Job Number: 718688
Category: Research & Laboratory
Job Number: 718688
Category: Research & Laboratory
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As one of the world’s foremost research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center is known for our life-changing research that has led us to 6 Nobel Prizes. With a Grants and Contracts career in our esteemed Internal Medicine Department, you will be a key part of our multidisciplinary research facility with opportunities to work with leaders in patient care and medical research.
The Department of Internal Medicine is seeking a Senior Research Associate to join the lab of Dr. Theodoros Kelesidis, within the division of Infectious Diseases. The Kelesidis lab focuses on mechanisms and how increased oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, and immune dysfunction drive development of end organ disease such as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Novel research in the laboratory has identified novel antioxidants that target increased bioactive lipids and altered mitochondria to attenuate increased systemic inflammation, immune dysfunction, and end organ disease in viral infections like chronic HIV infection and SARS-COV-2 infection. These findings may initiate further studies to explore the efficacy of novel therapeutic interventions that might improve the prognosis of vulnerable groups that are at high risk for development and progression of viral infections like HIV and COVID-19. Under the direction of Dr. Kelesidis, you will perform laboratory procedures to study inflammatory and cellular responses in viral infections and associated cardiometabolic or other end organ disease.
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Explore the full range of opportunities we offer within our research areas and labs.
If you want a larger canvas for exploration and discovery, look no further. We have more than 500 labs on campus. Here are just a few of the research investigations you’ll find underway at UT Southwestern Medical Center:
Work here, and you’ll help us create and conduct translational bench-to-bedside research that quickly moves basic discoveries into treatments that directly benefit patients. Here’s an example: We’ve found that small artificial molecules called peptoids show promise as both diagnostic tools and treatments for various types of cancer. Peptoids can bind to cancerous cells more tightly than normal cells. So our researchers are looking at ways to combine peptoids with anti-cancer drugs to target cancer cells more specifically.
At UT Southwestern, you can be part of our next breakthrough.
As a progressive, innovation-driven medical center, UT Southwestern relies heavily on our lab techs, medical techs, histotechnologists, and cytotechnologists to play a key role in the diagnosis and care planning of patients.
Our broad spectrum of services will present you with opportunities to work across a range of dynamic lab settings. You’ll have abundant tools, training, and support to facilitate your success and professional growth.
For each member of this diverse and collaborative team, we provide excellent benefits, including PTO and pension and retirement plans. When you consider Dallas’ relatively low cost of living and high quality of life, UT Southwestern emerges as your best option for a fulfilling career.
There are many ways to contribute here. As we continue to explore new solutions that will save lives and enhance quality of life for millions, we’re committed to providing rigorous scientific training in both basic and clinical research to scholars across the Medical Center and community. You can take advantage or help support a number of robust programs, such as:
Fellowship Program (QP-SURF)
Our research teams help plan, conduct, fund, administer, and report on clinical trials across the broad spectrum of health conditions and diseases. More than 1,000 trials are currently underway, including these areas of medicine: