Postdoctoral Fellow Chemical Biology & Therapeutics

Posted 9 days ago

virginia commonwealth university school of medicineHenrico (VA)

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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond seeks a Post‑Doctoral Fellow with expertise in synthetic chemistry and/or chemical biology. The laboratory focuses on small molecules for therapeutics and chemical tools in disease biology, including opioid and pain therapeutics and cancer targets. You will design, synthesize, characterize, and evaluate small molecules across multidisciplinary programs, working with chemical biology, pharmacology, cellular biology, and computational

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